Something like MS Word but for free?

[Sniper82]

Is there something like Word but free. Or maybe dirt cheap?

 

[biostud]

click

 

[watek]

Open source one - http://www.abisource.com/

 

[Zero Plasma]

openoffice.org it's great.I use it in addition to MS Office 2003 as there are a few things it can't do.But for free it's great!

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: Smoke0
openoffice.org it's great.I use it in addition to MS Office 2003 as there are a few things it can't do.But for free it's great!

OpenOffice is probably your best bet. Or you could find a copy of Works which includes Word (if you didn't want to spill out for Office). WordPerfect is a good alternative as well. But money is money and OpenOffice is free.

 

[fs5]

OpenOffice.org!

 

[tfinch2]

openoffice owns. it's all i use..

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: fs5
OpenOffice.org!

 

[alm4rr]

did they ever make conversion utilities for OO with WP?

 

[n0cmonkey]

koffice.

 

[theAnimal]

Originally posted by: alm4rr
did they ever make conversion utilities for OO with WP?

wpd2sxw

 

[redbeard1]

Abiword. Its small, runs on old equipment, and can be set to save as .doc. OO is a slow hog if you don't have a pretty good system.

 

[drag]

Abiword or Openoffice.org. Abiword is just a word proccessing program and it does a great job. However OpenOffice is a complete MS Office replacement (except for access),

 

[JBT]

OpenOffice is a great peice of software.

 

[notfred]

I support OpenOffice.org for president in 2008!

 

[Zugzwang152]

I used OpenOffice for a couple of months in conjunction with office xp. I then moved completely to office when i picked up Office 2003 student/teacher.

it was good, although i recall a few errors importing MS office documents.

 

[jst0ney]

openoffice

 

[BFG10K]

Wordpad.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Wordpad.

How about "notepad" then?

Or maybe we can descend all the way into the dark ages and go with "type writer + whiteout."

 

[Zelmo3]

Also check out 602PC Suite.
Or if you don't mind spending a little more (albeit less than you would for MS) WordPerfect is consistently a step ahead of the rest.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: drag

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Wordpad.

How about "notepad" then?

Or maybe we can descend all the way into the dark ages and go with "type writer + whiteout."

Or to *gasp* ed