[Vigilanteman]

Oracle's Open Office suite is a fairly respectable word processing and spreadsheet (among other things) which doesn't require a license fee. They may be a little more clunky to work with than the Word and Excel equivalents, but that is mainly a matter of getting used to them.

It is refreshing to use something where money isn't being skimmed to go toward Bill Gates' lefty causes.

[GeronL]

LibreOffice is great

[Utilizer]

Good to know. I wish more people would come to understand that no, they do not HAVE to have the very latest version of MS Office to get the job done. Indeed, MS has historically made later versions of their Office Suite incompatible with earlier files saved in previous versions, so as to “encourage” people to ‘upgrade’.

[Straight Vermonter]

Oracle's Open Office suite is a fairly respectable word processing and spreadsheet (among other things) which doesn't require a license fee. They may be a little more clunky to work with than the Word and Excel equivalents, but that is mainly a matter of getting used to them.

I think it is harder for those of us who have a decade of more of using Office than for a new learner. My sons have always used OpenOffice and can use it effortlessly. I still look for things in OpenOffice where I remember them being years earlier in Office.