Alternative of MS Office

I've used a few over the years trying to save a few bucks. but I am back with MS. The problem that I had was that some of the formatting didn't translate properly even though I saved it as a .doc file. I felt that the inaccurate formatting made me look sloppy to my clients and partners.

OpenOffice ofcourse. im slowly trying to change all my system softwares with freewares. I had a dream 10 years ago about this, when i would do big programs and let people use it for free. i guess, some people also have this dream and made it a reality.

No never used any other alternative nor know any. i don't have any problem with any Microsoft programs that i don't ever think of change. Microsoft is trusted and i can't trust pirated software as sometime they have virus

I now use openoffice. I used to use msoffice but I just think microsoft charges way too much for their products. openoffice is pretty good and it's free. I prefer using free programs over pirated ones since they encourage developers to produce more free programs and they provide competition for big developers like microsoft. Competition helps bring prices down, thus benefiting consumers. I now use open source programs as much as possible. I use firefox instead of ie and I use foxit instead of adobe. I support open source software and I think everyone should since it would benefit us consumers.