[Tainan]

Sorry to hear of Open Office falling short of your needs. I can only speak for my experience using it, daily, for the last two years.
I send docs from OO to MS Word clients daily and have never had a problem with compatibility...yet.
There is a short learning curve in getting used to it;but the more I use it, the better I find it.

I just got sick of S Office taking over my computer and the price for new editions.
OO works for me. I encourage others to take a look at it and see if it meets their needs.

I also recommend a free picture program named PhotScape.

[GeronL]

I tried taking an online class and there were a few things I needed that OO didn’t do. But since I stopped, I wondered why I paid so much for MS Office.

Last week my harddrive died and now I use Ubuntu 12.04 and I like it fine, I wish there were more games though. lol.

WarZone2100 is a bit addicting

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, I haven’t had any document compatibility problems with OO, it’s editing features that I use constantly in Office, have been doing so for a decade or so, that don’t exist in OO. That and the stupid shared recent document list between all OO apps.