>> but it uses more resources than Office 97 <<
Umm.. yeah, wasn't Office 97 made for the C=64? I'm kidding, but it ain't fair to compare OpenOffice to '97.
I will say that both OO and Office97 use more resources than the WordPerfect 5.1 that is also installed on this computer, but I don't use it much anymore.
By the way, do you know of anyway to get WordStar Pro to run on a WinTel machine - now that was an efficient word processor.