Kings Office
If you want the real look and feel of Word XP-2003, you should give the free KingSoft Office a try. It really looks like a perfect twin (some little details missing in a few submenu's. This little Chinaman offers almost perfect compatibility with .doc files (Libre and OOo do this only to an extent), stylesheets are perfectly taken care of (only are the styles not alphabetically sorted, I wonder why). And if you really want a ribbon (which I did not test), well they have one too and you can just toggle between those "skins".
I was also even able to rescue some files Vista trashed (see my other comment under" again!", but here Libre and OOo, besides partly trashing my stylesheets can recover more files...). My only problem is that my professional contacts, over here, are not fluent enough in English to use it and, personally, I can't do without French and Dutch spellcheckers. KingsOffice doesn't have them. Otherwise I would even consider their Pro version, not because it has so many more to offer, but because I believe a good job deserves a reward!
