>Thanks very much, Andy.
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>To me that was hidden. Sure, it was in plain sight but "See also" is a place I rarely pay attention to.
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>Also, I did it in Outlook's Help, and if my window had been an inch smaller vertically I wouldn't have found it despite your fine directions.
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>Finally, I didn't see anything that told me that changing it there would also make it apply to ALL other Office products. Another of those things that may be a good think but it isn't intuitive that it would do that and anyone who might want ONLINE for just Word or Excel (say, to get all those templates it brags about in the option setting panel) then they are SOL.

If I had the beast installed, I would have caught it right away. My firewall warns me whenever any of the software tries to call home.

Now I'm a happy user of OpenOffice, and my nerves feel much better.