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If you need Microsoft Office, but either can’t afford or don’t want to pay for Office, take a look at OpenOffice. If you are sending files to others, remember to send it as a .doc or .rtf, so they can open it. OpenOffice even lets you convert to a pdf file.

Download it at OpenOffice.org

Google Docs also uses OpenOffice. Try it without downloading and installing it at docs.google.com