The Downside to Open Office

Sure, there are downsides to everything, but we're not giving up much if anything for free software.

• There are certain tasks which do not translate from Microsoft to Open Office and vice versa including advanced macros.
  
• The formatting can change in the writing program.

When I was searching the web for problems people had with Open Office, even off of the Open Office site, the problems had to deal mostly with formatting, which was a problem with older versions. If there are problems with Open Office software, people usually go to the Open Office site or OOo (the abbreviation for all of those o's).