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!

Yeah that was a crosspost after which my computer crashed. Uh,buy you cannot delete while editing. The way you delete is to treat the yellow rectangle as a character. That is SELECT it, but don't double or right click it to open it. Use your mouse so that that you can select it,then use the DELETE key like you would any other mark.

I thought of that, too, but it won't delete when I do that. I guess it's just a weird hiccup or something.

Question for people with Blackberries - can you recieve picture text messages? My Mom says that every time I send her a pic, she gets a text telling her to visit a website to view it, which seems weird to me, but I don't know if it's a T-Mobile thing or a Blackberry thing. She has either a Pearl or a Curve - can't remember which.

Apple has submitted a patent for a docking station for an MacBook that looks exactly like an iMac:

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I've gotten the same message on my iphone too. I think the person sending them is on T-Mobile, but I will check.

Oh, I should clarify - she's on T-Mobile. I'm on Verizon, and get picture messages right on my phone, which is why I was confused.