Glenn Reynolds has a review of OpenOffice up.
I used OpenOffice's word processor to write my review of Ron Paul's book, and I have to say I really liked it. It's easy and intuitive, and it's much, much closer to my beloved WordPerfect than to Word. Also, it's free. I'd have to try it on something really long, like a law review article with lots of footnotes, to be sure how I feel, but I really enjoyed my testdrive. Using Word always feels like work. Using OpenOffice just felt like writing. And did I mention it's free?
To add my .02, OpenOffice works fine with both footnotes and end notes. It does a good Table of Contents as well. Setting up hyperlinks to different parts of the document is relatively straightforward -- so much so that I could write elements of Army Porn as a "choose your own indenture" sort of novel. And what's more, those hyperlinks work even when I converted it to .pdf. I also wrote a business plan full of nifty charts and graphs with it, but that's going to stay off the internets for now.
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