askSam, the text database,has been accumulating info for me for 15 years now is simple, fast and moves from computer to computer (difficult to convince friends of that, though). Can't imagine living without it. Single most valuable/indispensable program. And why were you dissing Wordperfect in the article (as in, an example of an indispensable program USED to be Wordperfect ) - I'm at X4 now and it's still so much better than MS Word ('cept for graphics)?