Wot, no trial version of Star Office?

As a newbie to Linux computing I know I get OpenOffice as a free application but if I need to import documents from my office that have been created in MS Office it is not a smooth process. This made me consider Star Office, but, there doesn't appear to be a free trial version to tempt me and I'm not one for going down the road of 'Buy now and get your money back if you're not satisfied'. I don't mind limited trial periods ... this should at least give me time to test the application and then, if I feel happy with it, I will buy!!
So what have you to offer here?

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I have found that using the official OpenOffice
builds that are located at openoffice.org are more up
to date and with more functionality than the ones
supplied with the Linux distros.To which version do you refer? I have version 2.2
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What I can say is that the function in Star Office is
99% the same as in Open Office - the reason for no
'try before you buy' is that you have OpenOffice
available to try for free.What are the main differences between OpenOffice and Star Office and how do they compare with Microsoft Office 2003?
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I notice you said that you need to import documents,
what are you trying to open - is it just word and
excel files? If so you can just do "File, Open" and
this should open your old MS file without a problem.I also use Micrsoft Access
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If you can be more specific to your issue we will try
and help you further.I am an I.C.T. volunteer at our local Community Centre and am trying to persuade members of the committee that it may be worth their while taking a look at what OPENSUSE 10.1 has to offer, especially as it comes for free and could make a considerable difference, both in financial savings and reliability.

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