Hi Bob, many thanks you're absolutely right. It works for me also, dragging and dropping. The problem was when I tried to open files directly from FP or Word. As I said I'm no guru and am still playing with xara, but strange that I used to be able to cut 'n paste directly from xara into FP, but no longer can.

Anyway, many thanks to you again, and also Gary, Jon & James for your friendly advice.

Problem solved! - bottle avoided, Happy bunny!

Guy.