If you dowloaded OpenOffice.org 1.0 suite and didnt like the menu fonts and got some font problems there are two things you should do :
1- Download menu font addon from ftp.closeedge.net/pub/cartman
2- Visit
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4366 if you have font anti-aliasing problems. There is a simple work around for the issue.
And just a side note OpenOffice.org is really good at opening m$ formatted files.
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