Michele, I've downloaded OOo 3.0 and Star Office 8 locally. You can get the builds here: http://151.155.248.9/Sandbox/Testing/OOo/Builds/Upstream/ Anyway, it looks like the new look and feel isn't much different as far as I can tell with this version of OOo. Installation Pointers ================ OOo 3.0 ================ Here are the steps I had to take to get StarOffice 8 to install From a console do the following: tar xvjf ./OOo-Dev_DEV300_m7_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz cd DEV300_m7_native_packed-1_en-US.9293/RPMS/ sudo rpm -Uvh *.rpm StarOffice 8 ================ Here are the steps I had to take to get StarOffice 8 to install From a console do the following: xhost + su rm -rf /var/tmp/unpack_staroffice/ sh so-8-eval-pp6-bin-linux-en-US.sh NOTE: If the JAVA install buttons don't show up, just resize the window to have them appear