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  1. Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows

    3.1.0 (May 5, 2009)

    There a few things about OO that just make sense :
    1) install on just about any system
    2) no cost
    3) standard, open and compatible
    4) easy installation of add-ons even in OS of different languages

    I must admit that there a few things that I cannot do with OO that can be done with Framemaker, like preceding and following text or graphics for paragraph styles, but that could be implemented with an add-on.
    Compared to MS Office, its performance is pretty much the same. I cannot see why anyone would pay for Office 2007. Besides, I cannot stand the interface.

    I have worked with documents over a 150 pages with graphics, columns, indexes, tables etc. and have had no problems. If you use the paragraph styles, everything flows nicely.