I use MS Office 2007 at work and I hate it. I do a lot of Word, Excel and Access stuff and the new interfaces are crap. As for Access I have ditched it in favor of SQL Server Express and either just use the SQL Manager or I build a web front end in Visual Studio.

At home I use OpenOffice 3. It is free and powerful, and yes it will save files as MS compatible .doc, and .xls files.

I have used OpenOffice since it was StarOffice back in the 1990's I always liked it better, especially since it was Java based and could run on Windows, Unix, or Mac hardware

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Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
FoxyCleopatra '99 Chevy Suburban
Scarlett 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Krystal 2004 Volvo S60
Gone
'74 Jeep CJ5
'97 Jeep ZJ Laredo
Rudolf ‘86 300SDL
Bruno '81 300SD
Fritzi '84 BMW
'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad