I must admit, I don't see real performance problems between Vista and XP. My XP laptop was not lightning fast, so I think my current laptop is much faster than my XP one.

Probably because your current laptop has much better hardware. I mean the only reasonable speed comparison between varying OS systems is the same hardware.

Oh I think you are right. It also has a lot more RAM.

I have Vista and haven't had a problem with it so far, but I'm hardly putting the laptop through its paces.

My feeling on this is: sure Vista has to work for somebody. I guess it is a matter of how lucky you feel.

With Vista there is a whole lot more that can go wrong than with XP. And for this risk you getter slower performance than you would with same hardware on XP. And while I can think of a few things it does better than XP I can't think of any major things it does better.

I just installed OpenOffice on my MacBook, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete notes from a document I was working on in Word. Any suggestions?

I've been a fan of OpenOffice, but hadn't really used it much for my collaborative work on my old computer. So far, I'm finding that I don't like the collaborative tools as well in OpenOffice, but I'm not sure if it's because it's not as good for that or that I just haven't set it up properly. Any ideas?

Thanks much for any help!

OK - my version of Open Office (on XP) could not even find the comments I created in word. While the "Notes" feature of OO is the equivalent of the "comments" feature in MS office, I simply cannot find any of the Word Comments when I open the document in OO. Can you see your word created comments in your version of OO? Because if you can, they should have a physical location in your document (as a yellow rectangle) and you can simply find them and delete. As I said, I could not find the buggers.

Thanks Typo. I can find the yellow rectangles, but I haven't been able to delete them. Even when I open them, they just give me the option to edit, but not delete. Argh. And I can't find anything in OO help under deleting or notes.

OK I found a trick that works some of the time. If I insert a note in OO, then exit the note, then go back,select and edit it, I can use the arrow keys inside the edit box to navigate to some of the MS Word comments. Others still don't show up. I think there are incompatibilies between OO notes and MS word comments, though they probably vary with Word and office versions. Since your version is in a differing OS than I have, I can't get you much info via experimentation.

Interesting. I don't have any trouble getting in, just with getting rid of. Thanks for trying, though!