I have OpenOffice at home, here at work I have to use MS Office. The only thing I need an office suite for is Excel, you can do a lot of useful scientific stuff in spreadsheets that have nothing to do with accounting. If held at gunpoint, I can generate PowerPoint slides, but that is for the brain-dead.

For "word processing", I just use Mozilla Composer and create everything in html.

Thanks for the link to the PDF gen tool, Lemurmania. I'll have to try that out.