[supertammie]

My version of Microsoft Word expired some time ago, and a friend of mine suggested this replacement.
http://www.abiword.com/
It's a pretty decent alternative to word, and it's absolutely free and legal.
Abiword Download

I still save my documents as word files though.
In order to do this, just save as"whateveryourtitleis.doc"
The ".doc" is very important. If you don't do this, it will automatically save as an Abiword document that will only be opened with Abiword.

*note
- some of the formatting gets messed up (i.e. page numbering moves from right to left)
- it does not automatically capitalize anything for you
- the grammar/spell check isn't as up to par as word

This IS much better than not having Microsoft Word at all, but it allows me to work on my files at home.

[xjleex]

Why not OpenOffice?
Its basically the same you have to save it as a .doc as well.

[knitoe]

have you tried openoffice? i've heard some nice things about that.

[dot1q]

Nothing other free product compares to Openoffice.

[watcher]

i like to use google docs. lets me access my stuff anywhere i go [as long as i'm connected]

[cpopbaby19]

Word processor is pretty ok too.

[Bigjmaster14]

OpenOffice is amazing it is basically everything microsoft has but free and its open source


http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

I use it and im a broke college student

[apparition]

i dont think the current versions of openoffice (or any other alternative to ms office) support the new ms .docx/etc formats. i hear the upcoming openoffice 3.0 does though. thats the big thing that turns me off openoffice atm.

[Xarthan]

google docs baby! and you can use it offline now too !

[supertammie]

i've heard of open office too, but for some reason, it won't work on my computer =T
ahha i have a '02-'03 pavillion
it's crashed a couple of times, but it'll have to do until i can afford a mac for uni

[vip_gd]

ooh thanks.
my damn laptop doesn't have MS word installed

[emceej]

i use wordperfect. lol.
the only thing that sucks about it is that the navigation is too darn confusing ><

[chocopocky]

How about Wordpad?

Most computers have it.. I think.
It's like the ghetto version and it works fine for me.

[psquare6806]

when i used to have dial-up (>_<) open office was too big of a file to download. so i just used abiword + wordpad, and it was so annoying >_>

[bluelily]

As earlier posters suggested, you should use Open Office. It works with any Microsoft Office document format and it's free. The only thing I need it to do wis work with my PDF files. Then, I will be happy.

[chunnie]

OpenOffice is probably the best free one out there, but I still prefer Google docs as I can acces all my file where ever I am, even if I don't have my laptop with me. And the best part is that even school proxy servers let me use it.
Holla google

[S13xFLYxBY]

OpenOffice is amazing it is basically everything microsoft has but free and its open source


http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

I use it and im a broke college student

OpenOffice is awesome!

[.oOLimOo.]

is abi or office comptaible with Vista?

[yuna]

yes, i know cuz i use it
too bad it doesn't have excel =(

[mika.16]

ergh my laptop's word just finihsed the trial too!! id dint even realise what had happened till i searched it up on the net, and so now im waiting for openoffice to finish downloading... its gonna take a while lol.
i hope it works!