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Whoops. Not so. MS Word 5.0 has Quicktime support included already. Many Mac programs DO NOT. Quicktime is not gained without some effort. In order to paste a Quicktime movie into a document both the application and the document format have to specifically support Quicktime (and make Quicktime calls, etc.) It is NOT a painless proceedure by any means. It is a 100% certainty that any program which has not had a revision since May of last year absolutely will NOT be able to include Quicktime movies in their documents. That's when Apple released the Quicktime programming spec to developers. It is a good probability that most of the programs which HAVE had such an upgrade, unless it was a major one (as in the case of MS Word 5.0), will not have added Quicktime support as it is NOT a simple task by any means. The reason you cannot paste an ANIM into Scribble! is that Scribble! simply has not implemented the code required to handle an ANIM in it's documents. There is NOTHING preventing them from doing so. The task of doing so is exactly comparable to adding Quicktime support in a Mac word processor. The fact that Quicktime is NOT a full screen format gives it a minor advantage in that it can therefore easily be displayed within another window on the Mac. That doesn't stop anyone from implementing a similar thing (say, for AnimBrushes) in their word processor on the Amiga. Me, I'd be happy to see just that. (Sorry to all about the long message, but I felt it necessary to clear this up… 🙂 –>Steve Bennett