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Message: [QUOTE="John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Mac], post: 6848757"] Hi Beth: Yeah, it's true :-) Project Centre looks very impressive, and it adds functionality the PC lot would die for, but under the skin it's pretty much a simple wizard (a simple add-in such as one could create in VBA if you had the time). Once you start wanting changes to the internal workings of Word, your first task is to persuade 350 million users of PC Word to want it... Once Microsoft starts working out "what will this cost, and how long will it take?" they just add "us" to the overall Word user base. They won't tell us how many copies of Mac Word 2004 are out there, but I'm picking it's around 750,000. So from Microsoft's point of view, the sum becomes: "We have $n to spend on the next release. We have 350,750,000 users. 750,000 of them (0.21382751247327156094084105488239 per cent) want a feature that will cost $x. The other 99.786172487526728439059158945118 per cent of our users won't be able to use this feature." As you can see, we only have two available strategies. One is to tell all of our friends how much better Macs are, but to explain to all of our Mac using friends that it is essential to have a copy of Microsoft Office on each Mac. The other is to tell Microsoft that whatever feature we want is just about to be introduced into Open Office :-) Cheers -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410 [/QUOTE]

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