Ha! I use Entourage and not Word, Excel or PowerPoint, so that's why I noticed Services support there and assumed it applied to all of Office 2004. More evidence that individual Carbon apps have to be specially programmed to use Services. On 12/29/05 8:41 AM, Norman Cohen <nacohen at mac.com> wrote: > I need to <partially> correct myself. Entourage, which I don't use > and thus never noticed, does support services; however, Word, Excel, > and Powerpoint don't seem to support them. Or at least, I haven't > figured out how to get them to work in those applications. > > > On Dec 29, 2005, at 08:17 AM, Norman Cohen wrote: > >> 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.