Converting Documents from Microsoft Word to OOoWriter
http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/writer/wconvert.htm

OpenOffice.org
2004

Abstract:

I'm happy to report that OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 does a very good job of converting Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP files to OOo files -- much better than the previous releases I tested. Most of the problems I had noticed with conversions done by OOo1.0.2 did not appear when I converted the same Word files using OOo1.1.0. Some conversion problems remain. Most of these are probably due to OOoWriter not having any counterpart to some features of Word.