You really aren't a child of the digital world, are you Rob! Anyone can have a Google account, which comes with free email address. It's not INSTEAD OF your existing provider, it's AS WELL AS. You don't even have to use the provided email address, but you can use the free online storage and especially convert your docs to PDFs. Googlemail is webmail, i.e. you access it via your web browser, not your email program. Microsoft provide their own version of it - Windows Live - complete with free storage also, so theoretically you could have umpteen webmail addresses, each one with free email addresses (which you don't have to use), free online storage, and in the case of Google, a suite of online office programs. Having converted your Word docs to pdf then you can just re-download them again if you want, to print them off. Saved me the trouble of writing all that.... Although I thought most people had more than 1 email address anyway