Good comments, guys . . . I appreciate your taking the time.
Regarding how many columns you can see, that is completely dependent on the zoom factor you are using.
I do get the impression that a 22-in widescreen is good stuff. Although this is not a factor for me, I can't help but wonder about folks who develop sheets that will be viewed by people who do not have a widescreen. If you develop on a wide screen, then your non-widescreen customer might get short changed on the width he sees. Just wondering. Or for a specific zoom setting, does the non-widescreen automatically adjust to show the same number of columns??

To those of you who have Vista, was gathering together drivers of various makes a problem, or does the PC maker (or Vista) take care of that for you. I have a Canon printer that I'd hate to be without for even a day. Will I have to go to Canon to get a driver, or will an adequate one come with Vista? I also use an old 8-wire parallel cable for my printer. It works so don't laugh. I suppose I'll have to get a USB cable since the new computers have done away with parallel ports. (Sigh)

I was astonished to see that Dell is offering for about $50 (as I recall) a 4GB flash drive to substitute for a floppy. That ought to help when creating backups and transferring files from old to new PC. I normally use an RW CD (which has 534 MB usable) for backups, and it's only 75% full at the moment. I could switch to the flash drive and do away with slow CD. Incidentally, I've been using that CD for a year now. Verbatim really puts out a top notch RW CD. I used to have to replace the cheaper CDs after about 2 months of use.

Dell is offering a choice on CD drives of having a combo DVD/CD RW drive or to have two drives: one for CD and the other for DVD. Have any of you had a bad experience with the combo drive? They aren't really new. They were selling them when I bought my present PC 4 years ago.

Also I was wondering about software for controlling the CD/DVD drives. On my present PC I bought Rpxio Media Creator 7, which at the time was considered a top notch system for mabaging CD creation. I've never once had a problem with it. Is that still a good interface software for CD and DVD creation?

Thanks again, gang.