Aparently the LibreOffice on my machine isn't up to snuff. The appearance of what opens is much like early versions of Microsoft Office, and what I do find present in the menues is quite similar. The functions I mentioned, as examples, apparently just aren't there in what's loaded on our machine.

As our intention was to use the computer for another purpose, it is likely to be a while before I'll have time to do anything more with LO, but the reports about what's supposed to be in LO are encouraging, and may help others with deciding whether to use LO and in helping those who do.

Responses thus far are appreciated, and I would hope that the discussion will continue to dig out questions that others may have now. I'll try to watch the thread and keep notes, but won't be able to do much more investigating of LO immediately.

We have two primary machines, one Vista and one Win7, and both have versions of Microsoft Office 2007 installed. The changes from earlier Office versions are annoying, but we don't really have cause to learn another system until we're forced to replace the machines or the software we have, and I'd prefer to avoid additional program clutter on the ones we do business on. The machine that has the pseudo-LibreOffice installed has other problems and will be busy with its own dedicated use for some time, and thus far has only limited network connection for downloading new programs.

John