Thanks for the reply and advice Matty, its appreciated. However, you know what it's like when there's a places you want to go to and there's an obstacle in the way....

While the office suite is a pain that's not the problem. It's getting to see the underlying system that really interests me. I've figured how to check out other peoples folders (where I have permission of course) from within the app (not that this is of any real interest) but it would just be nice to hit a Unix command line if it's possible ('n I believe it is) and take it from there.

Regardz,

Ellis