Eddie, Although there is a service menu in Office 2004 apps, try selecting some text and using a service to act upon the text. It doesn't work (at least for me on multiple machines running Tiger 10.4.3). I use Services frequently, but unfortunately not in Office. Norm --- Norman A. Cohen nacohen at mac.com "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." Albert Einstein On Dec 28, 2005, at 23:40 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote: > Office 2004 supports Services. Office v.X does not, because at the > time it > was being developed there was no way for Carbon applications to use > Services.