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I had a few people recommend just use Open Office (actually they meant OpenOffice.org aka OOo, but lets not split hairs too much).

I've been forced to use this piece of crap at work since I began working there since it's the only thing that does what I need to do (presentations and such) that we have in the office, is free and doesn't raise privacy concerns like Google Docs does. For my personal stuff, I feel quite safe with Google Docs; but I understand companies can't be as relaxed about things.

OOo if there's something you can do to possibly make a program suck, it's done in OOo. Heck, the only thing it seems to do right is import stuff from MS Office formats.

First off, opening the dang program. I'm on Mac OS X so I have to use NeoOffice (same crap, different pile). Every time I open anything, it brings up a separate browser window of NeoOffice's homepage. Why do I want to see this? Better yet, why can't I turn this crap off? It's very annoying. I opened a document because *gasp* I may want to actually work with it! Not because I wanted to visit your crappy website and told to manually update. It's freaking Mac OS X, tie your program into the auto update mechanism like every freaking other application and stop bugging me!

Next, the second most simplest thing a program can do: close. Dang NeoOffice crashes every single time I close it! Don't these people have a gosh-dang debugger? Seriously who releases something this crappy to the general public? I should not be able to crash a program by merely opening and closing it! Now I need to deal with an annoying document recovery window next time I start. Ever notice document recovery in OOo (unlike MS Office) never EVER works?

Now, moving beyond simple stuff - the annoying auto-complete. I am tired of having auto complete on every freaking word I type. What if I just want to type the word "I"? Stop trying to pretend to be smart by auto-completion because you're only reminding how retarded you are as a computer program.

Bulleting. Why is bulleting such a hassle in text documents in OOo? I just want to do like any other word processor (not just Word) hit enter to automatically add something to the list, tab to start a sublist, shift+tab to go back out.

No, OOo is freaking retarded. If you want a numbered list in OpenOffice, here's how it displays:
1. First Item
2. Second Item
3. Third Item

4. First sub-item
5. Second sub-item
6. Third sub-item

7. Fourth Item

And now some random text between numbered lists.

Hey, maybe 3 pages

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