My name name is Simon and I use OpenOffice family from several years, also on works (mainly Write, a little bit Calc; rarely Draw or Impress); i write nearly 60 pages of paper works, also using macro to interface it with a software I made. I said "family" meaning also the LibreOffice fork: I've installed both on my computers 'cause each has its own good & bad.
My former hope was LibreOffice, now it's OpenOffice 4: I highly appreciated your public questions about people desires about 4.0 version, because a great defect in LibreOffice is that, IMHO, they lost the "normal" user (AKA non-geek) point of view, introducing very specialistic feature, cleaning of source, improvement in speed, but still remain many ugly interface defects that make this software less easy to use for a simple user (like my parents) vs old (but easier) word 97/2000. I find horrible having non resizeable window in some option window, ugly the way to redefine toolbar or keyboard, also worse the macro interface, but also lacking a simple way to put line pages (centered in bottom) without knowing about fields & c. or not hint as file name the first line of the document or a way to save/transfer easily configuration from one computer to another (also better by clouds). I'd like to show OO to my friends saying "It's easier than your old Word": hope I will soon! If I can help, I'm here. *Simone *
