[Venturer]

Anybody know of a good free Words Program.

I need it for a letter or a note once in a while, I don’t need excel ,Power Point ,or any of the other crap you get with the $400 dollar microsoft version just need a good word program that can send and receive.

[Last Dakotan]

www.openoffice.org

[jeffc]

Anybody know of a good free Words Program.

I use Google Docs. As long as it's nothing personal, I fell no qualms about using it. And I'll never lose it, it's saved in cyberspace.

[Squawk 8888]

http://www.openoffice.org

Works with Word, Excel and Powerpoint files, all for free.

[kevkrom]

I’ll third OpenOffice.

The only problem I have in exchanging files with MS Office are in things that are precisely layout-dependent (e.g., desktop publishing). The two applications will have some minor differences in layout that can cause some unusual hiccups when going between them.

If you’re sticking with just text and basic formatting, you’ll be fine.