I think this would be great for everybody, because OpenOffice 3.0 has A LOT of improvements that will help people that uses this kind of program constantly to migrate from MS Office to OpenOffice.
Support for MS Office 2007 documents and PDF editing are two good examples.

I know that Intrepid will be released in 15 days, but I think there aren't going to be a lot of crazy bugs to be fixed in "only" 15 days by developers if this program gets upgraded in Ubuntu repositories!

Think about that and let's do this now, instead of waiting more six months (Ubuntu 9.04) just to get this great program by default... you know, if more good programs comes by default, more the newbies and veterans will like!

I always reboot my computer and enter Windows and use their "GREAT" Office 2007 Tools (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc..) when I want to do some Office-related work.

You can clearly see that it's very easier and much better with the "buttons tabs" at the top instead of the classic menus used by OpenOffice.org.

I can easily finish my work this way.
I suggest that the community start giving OpenOffice.org a nicer look and an easier way of finding what I want to do in my document, following Micorosft Office steps...

Because of the fact that you can never be sure what word processor/document reader someone on the receiving end of an email is using, it is a common practice to email a document in multiple formats (such as odt, pdf and Word XP doc) simultaneously, to almost guarantee the recipient can read your attachment.

I think the ability to choose multiple file formats (creating multiple files) when saving a document would be excellent. Of course, you could just save it 3 or 4 times, each time with a different format, but this is time consuming and could be easier. It can also be hard to remember which formats on your list you've already created a copy in.

My suggestion would be to offer checkboxes for each available file format, and when checking multiple formats, an option to create a subfolder matching the name of the file would be nice. There could also be an option to automatically tar or zip the output into an archive.

While it is always best to suggest that a friend use an excellent free software document reader that can read every format under the sun, in the case of a teacher or business associate it isn't normally appropriate to suggest that they install new software just to read your document.

A plugin that achieves this could be made for openoffice.org, abiword, koffice, etc.