Hi
I have not used it myself, but one of my friends who also runs a senior's website swears by it. According to her it is 100 % compatible with MS Office.
It is free so you will not lose anything by installing and using it. I am also contemplating installing it.
shobha

[quote="Carol Bratt":3k31lkv0]If you know how to use MS Office you should have no problems learning OpenOffice. It is just a matter of a little different navigation, but it is very intuitive. [/quote:3k31lkv0]

Carol for my own knowledge could you please tell if current version of open office would support word, excel created in Office 97 or 2000?

[quote="OldElmerFudd":1q14tgti]I'm pretty sure versions 2.x and 3.x will support Word 2000. You may need to look for OO 2.4 to read Office 97 docs.[/quote:1q14tgti]

Thanks