Anyway, when I installed the OpenOffice pupget I got this error message:
Seems like something funny happened when I shut down the window manager and then restarted it in order to put OpenOffice in the Start menu, but I can't think what it would be.
But when I tried to shut down the multisession DVD, it hung at the dialog window where you choose whether to save the session to the DVD. It seemed to have gone to a command prompt behind the shutdown dialog window so I typed xwin and X restarted. Then I fumbled around until I noticed the "save" thing at the top right of the screen. That seemed to work, and afterwards the multisession DVD shut down normally. I was pleasantly surprised that OpenOffice was available in the Start menu when I restarted the Puppy DVD even though it hadn't been saved in the usual way, but OpenOffice did open and as far as I could tell worked as it was supposed to...
For my next trick I'll try to uninstall OpenOffice, since I like Abiword better and OpenOffice seems to add a lot to the bootup time.
After playing around with it a bit more I found that I like it much better than Abiword. It responds to scroll inputs and keystrokes much cleaner than does Abiword, for one thing. It is much more difficult to figure out how to make it do what I want though.