Hey, sky.

I bought a new laptop with Vista and I LOVE it...for my uses that is.

I don't know about it accepting word products/items, but...

Yes, I can download word docs and open them via works at any point.

I'm pretty sure that excel would be the same but not completely sure. Maybe someone else can answer that for you.

I can do anything and everything I did with my XL. There just seems to be a higher security with it. That said, I don't do alot. I get online and do some pics, few downloads and some docs. That's about it.

Do I think it's better than XP??? Nope. Again, to me and for what I do, it's about the same.

KD