Bean is a great and useful text-editor with a little more usability than TextEdit but with all the flaws of TextEdit inherited from it.
If you're seriously looking to replace you bloated office-ware but want to work in an environment where you need to be able to work with 'any' type of document, be it OpenOffice, Miscrosoft Office or Apple's iWork files, keep looking.
Like TextEdit, Bean (still) does NOT transparently import all the formats that they claim to support. They'll import the more advanced formats only partially and you'll lose a lot of formatting / images and layout in the process. I was really hoping Bean would do better than that, but alas, I'll just have to suffer through NeoOffice a little longer :(
If your looking for a simple Text-editor that can make reasonably good looking office-documents with layouts that aren't too overly complex, this is the tool for you though, just don't expect too much of its' import functionality.