[Last Dakotan]

Openoffice Writer - free

[garyb]

Looks like there is a fork in the road.

Open Office: https://www.openoffice.org/

Libre Office: https://www.libreoffice.org/

[Pearls Before Swine]

Open Office... or Libre Office. Two closely related, capable programs. Check ‘em out.

[imardmd1]

Ditto. Have used OpenOffice for more than 10 years. Much easiter than Corel WordPerfect, which is actually rather imperfect when it comes to sharing documents with other "office"-type software.

Any OpenOffice document can be used by the expensive Microsoft Office set.

[NorthMountain]

Openoffice Writer - free

Good Answer!

[DaxtonBrown]

“Openoffice Writer - free”

I’m doing LibreOffice on Linux (I think just a branch of OpenOffice). I write books and self publish, so it is quite a risk moving from Word. Libre is a little quirky, but so far so good though. The big question is whether the index will work and how to format the tabel of contents better with multiple tiers.

[UB355]

Take a look at Outlook.com. They have free versions of all Office components.

[Traveler59]

Openoffice Writer - free

Open Office Suite. It's free, compatible with MS Office Suite, regularly updated, spell/grammar/thesaurus available in multiple languages. Been using it in my college courses. With two desktops, a laptop and a tablet I couldn't afford Microsoft even with a student discount.