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The fact that you have seen only a few number of icons on a Mac simply means that you have only seen a few programs on a Mac. When a Mac program creates a new document file, the document file automatically gets the same icon as other document files created by that same application. Each application can have its own icon, as well as have one or more icons that are to be used for the documents created by that application. The point of an icon on the Mac is to say (for example) "this here is a document created by MacWrite". If all you use is MacWrite then you will never see more than two or three icons (not counting system icons). James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.