on 7/25/03 6:49 AM, Pat D. Stephens at patdart at cox-internet.com wrote: > I have a friend who is seriously thinking of switching. But, I tried > to open her backup CD to find and print a Word document for her and it > tells me that the iBook cannot read the CD. It gave me three choices, > ignore, cancel or initialize. That simply sounds like a misburnt or damaged CD . In general there should be NO problem at all for word on mac to read word on PC docs P