While the marketplace may be the prime force in shaping the translator's disposition to adopt the strategies offered by word processing, at the same time translator training programs are building this technology into the curriculum and in this way helping future translators to become familiar with it from the start. At Georgetown University, David and Margareta Bowen have been using word processing in the Division of Interpretation and Translation for a number of years. In this article they report on various facets of their experience.