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The student price for MS-Office 2003 Professional is $60 at the MSU Computer Store. When we speak to parents about the MSU Computer Requirement at Orientation, we point out that sometimes it's cheaper to buy a new computer without any bundled office software and pick up MS-Office at the Store. I'm trying Open Office on a new computer. I don't have enough experience yet to give a complete review, but it feels kinda clunky to me. I also ended up with some very strange formatting artifacts after I pasted some text from a Web page into the word processor. It wants to auto-complete words by default, which drives me crazy and actually slows down my typing. When I e-mailed a document that I hadn't closed, the recipient received a file with no text (I guess MS-Word's auto-save has saved me in the past.) My guess is I'll be back to Word pretty soon. /rich ----- Original Message ----- From: John Resotko <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:53:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Star/Open Office vs. Microsoft Office To: [log in to unmask] ....Students could consider it a viable alternative to shelling out $200-$300 for the latest copy of MS Office when they buy a computer. ....