I edit a lot of random XML files for which there will never be a CSS but I also do heads-down writing in Author mode. For the latter I have "open in Author" set as the default. However, when I open any non-authored XML file, it gets the "There is no associated CSS" treatment, which I then have to switch to the text mode. I think it might make sense to have a general option "Open in text mode if no CSS" so that Oxygen just does the right thing for this sort of environment. You wouldn't want this to be the only behavior, or even necessarily the default behavior, but I'd like it to be the behavior I get. Cheers, E. ---- Eliot Kimber | Senior Solutions Architect | Really Strategies, Inc. email: ekimber@reallysi.com <mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com> office: 610.631.6770 | cell: 512.554.9368 2570 Boulevard of the Generals | Suite 213 | Audubon, PA 19403 www.reallysi.com <http://www.reallysi.com> | http://blog.reallysi.com <http://blog.reallysi.com> | www.rsuitecms.com <http://www.rsuitecms.com>