The basic reason I know people use it is because someone else can't easily alter their documents. I'm not saying it can't be done, but most pdf files sent to you are ones that only the 'author' can edit. It assures no tampering with the data. Re-Na Hanson / Arkansas USA ----- Original Message ----- From: " Billyus Eximius" <billy.e@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 4:53 AM Subject: [pchelpers] Re: IE question, search words in color? Talking of PDF, why do people use PDF files, quite often a page comes from the net in PDF and I see same pags in word format etc so why use it? Billy -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.