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BVB <<However, my original question still stands. How can someone say that a program can be more powerful than another and yet perform less?>> I'll give it a try, however, I haven't been following the thread. I don't know if you/him/they were talking about a specific program. It all depends on how you define power: speed, features, versatility, or by some other standard. For example you could have a WordProcessing program capable of loading and saving a file in *any* other WP's format, yet unable to its own spellchecking. A different WP might be able to save & load only its own format, but offers as-you-type spellchecking at 600 words per minute in seven languages. To the editor of a small magazine or newsletter, the ability to take almost any article submitted to him, load it into his own WP, then save in the 'proper' format is a POWERFUL feature. To the person at home writing the article, the spellchecker is the more POWERFUL feature. The same can be said for speed as a feature of a program. If the design of the as-you-type spellchecking feature limits a speed typist to 20 words a minute, then the typist does not see a powerful feature — reguardless of the fact that the spellchecker can recognize 1,230,232 words. The typist might see a different WP as having more power. The new WP can't speedcheck as they type, but offers faster respond than the other WP could (even after its spellchecker was off.) Finally, a program can have the power of hundreds of features, but not have a single feature that is powerful at what *it* does. Ron.