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Thank you all for your helpful comments.

Jongware � I take your point about working in a multi-platform office. I've been self-employed for the last 10 years while my daughter was at school (I wanted to be at home for her when she came home), but now she's off to Uni and I'm keen to get back into the workplace again. Many people think that's crazy, but I miss the opportunity to bounce ideas around with other techies and also the chance to get my hands on the latest hardware and software (I'm still using CS2 on a G5 under Tiger if you can believe that).

The trouble is, I've been working Macs exclusively (and I love 'em) during that time and I know that it narrows considerably my options when it comes to job hunting. Publishing is a small industry in my little corner of the World and the few opportunities that appear are quickly snapped up by more multi-talented, less wrinkled people. Hence the need to upskill and maybe break out of publishing altogether.

On the other hand, Shane and Supermacguy make good points about multi-app scripting. I am also a big fan of Xcode, although I've only used it in a very limited way so far (not much time for R&D when your working day ends 5 minutes before bedtime). Is there not a similar environment for Windows? Or does all the hard work need to be done manually? Shane, when you say that the hardest part is learning the object model, do you mean how to address correctly the part of the document that you want to work on? If so, then I agree completely � I've torn my hair out on many an occasion while trying to automate a simple task that takes two or three minutes to do manually!

The main theme here seems to be 'learn everything', which I suppose I should have expected! I'm off now to trawl the net for an Indesign/Javascript tutorial.

Thanks again,

Malcolm