> Having tried to hack OO 1.0 to build, I can see why this hasn't
> been done.  Geesh!  What a pain!
>
> On the bright side, both AbiWord and Gnumeric are excellent and
> open all my Word and Excel attachments with ease -- and aren't

but not mine unfortunately - crashes on many .xls i'm getting on outside.
anyway gnumeric is very good spreadsheet.

> absolute memory hogs either.  Now if only there was a PowerPoint
> alternative...

don't seek for "somethings alternative" but for program that will allow
you to do something.

like latex for writing documents