Tim, sorry I missed your response last Saturday-- forgot which forum I posted on. I have followed your suggestion (s) and still can't open the XML file. I also took another suggestion after yours and installed a free XML reader off Cnet. It doesn't work either. I failed to mention that I am using Office 2007 (ancient, yes) but it seems that some of the readers ofered on Cnet accommodate older versions of Office. Any further ideas? Obviously, I am a novice, at best, with computers.