[Tainan]

Frank, I suggest you look into Open Office. Its free and does everything MS Office does, in a much smaller package.
It is completely compatible with all of the MS Office programs and much easier to use.
I looked into it 2 years ago when I was faced with updating 3 computers in my office and saw how much a new copy of MS Office cost.
I made the switch to Open Office and have not had one problem or any regrets.

It also is not the computer resource hog that MS Office is. And unlike MS Office, it does not 'take-over' your computer.

Open Office <- - link.

[FrankR]

Thanks, I’ll look into it.

[Still Thinking]

Frank, I suggest you look into Open Office. Its free and does everything MS Office does, in a much smaller package.

Unfortunately, Open Office does NOT do everything Office does, and even some of what it does do, it does wrong (and I'm comparing it to Office '97). Believe me, I want it to be good, but there are a lot of features in Office it doesn't replicate.

[kevkrom]

The only caveat I’d throw in about OpenOffice (which I use on Windows, Mac, and Linux) is that while it can exchange files with MS Office, you have to be careful with anything that’s layout-dependent. OpenOffice and MS Office don’t always render documents exactly the same, so you have to be careful with forms, etc., especially those that push the limits of what fits on a page.