OpenOffice alternative?

[Nils Kassube]

R Kimber wrote:
> I'm struggling with OO.  Since the 8.04 upgrade arial won't appear as
> arial and saved arial documents come up with a bizarre-looking font
> called Albany, which isn't anything like Albany on the font websites
> and which doesn't seem to exist on my machine under that name.

Do you have the font Arial installed? That would be in package 
msttcorefonts.


Nils