Almost replacing Word with StarOffice

The vicissitudes of trying to convert an office to Linux and StarOffice and then having to convert back. Important reading.

"The straws which broke the camel's back were that: (1) SLLF had handed a disk to an associate for editing, and had it returned with a Word Macro Virus thoughtfully added. In the process of discovering and eradicating the virus, the NT server did several weird things, and it was discovered that Word/Win311 had been locking up occasionally and corrupting files..."

"I suggested that it might be worth investigating StarOffice on Linux as a replacement for their word-processing system..."

Complete story.