I hate OpenOffice. Anyway, Office 97 does a decent job, most of the coursework I do has to be hand written anyway so it isn't too much of a problem.
There is always Dafont.com for free fonts which is awesome because that's what I used for the Oddmatics logo. Space Age I think it was called. They even have a DOS imitation font on there. Not really useful for work related documents though, but still awesome for graphics. Perfect DOS VGA or something.