Hi For those few who are not yet very emacs savvy -- in follow up to the original post: on my windows xp (work machine)GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (included is 5.23 org mode) 1. I downloaded and unzipped org-6.06a to "c:/Documents and Settings/csnyder/Desktop/Archive/orgmode/org-6.06a/" 2. I then added to the top of my .emacs file (I assume this is how you "make sure that Emacs looks at the new directory before checking its own directories"?: (add-to-list 'load-path "c:/Documents and Settings/csnyder/Desktop/Archive/orgmode/org-6.06a/");; latest orgmode ...I still get the old 5.23 version of orgmode, but no error messages... Sorry to be so basic, but I like the org mode and would like be able to update when new features are added! Thanks CLS