On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:33:21 +0100, Bruce wrote:

Documents in Word 95 & 97 work perfectly in OO,
and I have only had one problem with Word 2003, but the .docx format
in Word 2007 causes severe problems

I think of the folk I know here, as an OO user I'm the only one who can
open docx format - people often email files in that format to me for
conversion, because their copies of Word won't even open it. OO at least
does it badly - but enough to pull the text out and save it into a more
useful format.