The RSS date/time format is a pain to create if you are building the XML for your RSS feed in a text editor.
OpenOffice Is Open Season on MSOffice
Sun Microsystems and some volunteer programmers have done something wonderful. They come up with a FREE office suite program. It’s got a word processing program called Writer that reads documents from Word and WordPerfect. It’s got a spreadsheet program called Calc that will open will open Excel files.