Open Office was the first Open Source program I ever heard of. Prior to hearing about Open Office, I had always had Microsoft Office. I used Microsoft Office skillfully, especially Word, Excel and Outlook, for years before ever receiving any training on them. While working as a contractor at Microsoft, I was trained to support Microsoft Word 2000. This training also included the basics of the other Microsoft Office 2000 programs because they can be used with Word.
Using Open Office was a little clumsy at first because things are just a little different. However, the creators were definitely inspired by Microsoft Office because if you know how to use Microsoft Office, it is not hard at all to make the transition to Open Office.
Since I have never received formal training on Open Office and just fumbled my way through teaching myself the basics of using it, I am not sure if it has all the cool features like WordArt. It definitely has all the basics you need to use it in any office environment. It is also able to open Microsoft Word and Excel files; and if you pay attention while saving your files, you can save them in standard Microsoft formats. This means you do not have to worry that someone else might not be able to open your files because they have Microsoft Office.
If I were setting up an business and needed to have an office program but had a tight budget, I would use Open Office instead of buying the licenses for Microsoft Office on several computers. It would take no time at all for anyone who already knows how to use a word processor and spreadsheet program to learn to use Open Office. Besides, I have had Word and Excel crash on me numerous times, but I have never had that problem using Open Office.
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