Upon switching over to Open Office all .docs where converted to .odt and it was the office standard... for about six months or so. I work in a small office of less then 10 employees, of those 10 only 4 work with word processing. The problem encountered was in sharing the .odt files to other firms, most people had no idea what to do with them or how to open them, PDF was not an option for most of the time these files where to be edited or used in other documents and apparently no one knows how to copy text out of a PDF but me. So then you get into the whole "save as" and ship that out, which was too complicated for these 4 people as well, I started finding two copies of files on the server one as .doc one as .odt, then the next person to edit may edit one but send out the doc. It was a mess. After trying to make the case for .odt and even with the odt plugin for Word I could not keep the .odt. So now everything is back to .doc. I belive that this is due to one thing, peoples unwillingness to learn/try something new.