Sal,

You, like most office productivity software users (I included), will likely use only a small fraction of a suite’s functionality. So it will almost certainly do anything you will want to do.

As you will be reading files prepared by Word and Excel, find out what these tools can and cannot do with Word & Excel files. For example, what happens with macros? Just because OpenOffice.org is standards compliant does not mean that it will be able to run a PowerPoint presentations.

If you don’t need to do what it can’t help you do, then you can’t beat the price!

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Eudaimonia