[Discuss] OpenOffice (or Star Office) Tutorial for experienced MS Word user

[Murray Strome]

I am able to find some respectable tutorials for OpenOffice and Star 
Office, but the ones I have found so far are not exactly what I am 
looking for.

I will be putting together some software for a new computer (Windows, 
unfortunately). It will have either OpenOffice or Star Office (part of 
Google Suite) installed, but not MS Word.  The user is an experienced 
Word user.  I am looking for a tutorial that will help her to transition 
from Word to OpenOffice as painlessly as possible.  It should point out 
the things that are done differently in OO, and how to achieve results 
that are similar to those she is used to in Word.

Also, it would be helpful if there were instructions on how to open Word 
documents in a way which will not completely mess up the format. This is 
probably a very tall order. I find that the OO format often changes even 
from one version of OO to another, and definitely when transferring from 
one OS to another.

Any suggestions? The tutorials on the OpenOffice.org  and Sun websites 
do not provide this kind of help. They provide what appear to be pretty 
good tutorials for a beginning word processor user, but don't go into 
things like "how to do the things that you are used to in Word". 

Any ideas?

If I were trying to teach the person, I would be at a bit of a loss as I 
have rarely used Word in the past five or six years (even though I have 
a legally licensed copy which I have not bothered to install on my 
Windows computer).

Has anyone looked at the differences (if any) between the latest free 
version of Star Office and OpenOffice?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Murray