The options for not using Word on Mac OS X continue…
The AbiWord folks have a development release of AbiWord v2.1.1 (MacOSX, Jaguar/Panther), which I have yet to try out. I’ve pretty much quit using OpenOffice.org for now and tend to use NeoOffice/J for editing Word files, and for the simple conversions I use Antiword along with ps2pdf to turn Word documents into PDF files…
It’s still a pain to receive Word documents, but some people just refuse to send you anything else…