Exactly. Right now OpenOffice is good, but it needs to be so much better; based on past experience, I don't trust that a document created in OO won't look like

Exactly. Right now OpenOffice is good, but it needs to be so much better; based on past experience, I don't trust that a document created in OO won't look like crap when opened in Word. The reverse happens often enough to be a concern. Oh, and please don't bring out the "fix it yourself" argument; enough time has passed, OO should be better already.