I currently use M$ Word to create reports that my company uses for various
purposes.  The format uses a lot of section breaks and column breaks which is
what I think is causing the majority of the problems.  The .doc file that we use
has a macro in it that is used to generate an email when something is changed. 
What we do is after the document is completed, it is converted to an .rtf by
Word dropping the macro and saving disk space.  I would like to start using OOo
instead of Word, but OOo doesn't open the .rtf files properly.  If I open the
.doc file with OOo it looks exactly as it does in Word, but if I open the .rtf
file it puts in lots of page breaks and some other odd characters.  In Word, the
.rtf looks identical to the .doc.  I will be more than happy to provide a sample
document.