Open Office has improved spectacularly over the years. It's very good for people who just want to work with data. There was a time when its interoperability w

Open Office has improved spectacularly over the years. It's very good for people who just want to work with data. There was a time when its interoperability with Office was poor, but that has come a long way. These days interoperability between versions of Office is poor, so there are times when OO can do a better job of reading a file created by a different vintage of Office.