[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Vaskez: OpenOffice is very similar to Word in look and feel, and lacks the distinct advantages that make Latex much better (easy entering of equations and professional look as well as the bibliography management system Bibtex etc.).

*makes note to try Latex*

Also whatever computer I've installed OpenOffice on, it loads and runs really slowly, even on my work 2.4GHz machine. Therefore I haven't used it much, but people say it's very buggy.

Loads slowly in comparison to MS Office definately.. I've only had problems with it running slowly on my laptop, though (which lags on the command line). The only bugs to speak of, in my experience, are to do with interpeting complex word documents, and those are being worked on as almost top priority for 2.0 [img]smile.gif[/img] .