OT: Word Processors

[Goldenmane]

Ok, so I have a new computer system. It's running XP (hey, I don't have time right now to screw around learning Linux) and naturally doesn't have Word installed. I can't be bothered buying a copy, so I'm looking for decent free Word Processing software.

I know some of you out there can make suggestions, so go to it.

[norther practitioner]

It didn't come with wordperfect or whatever that other microsoft one is?

[David Jamieson]

Microsoft works is not on the system? You should probably already have wordpad installed with XP.

It is not as robust as Word but it is a good word processor.

Mind you, if you can get your hands on a copy of Adobe Framemaker, Now you're talking! Best long document system ever devised.

[Hai_To]

Try Open Office. I use it at home and it works great.

http://www.openoffice.org/

[FngSaiYuk]

http://www.openoffice.org/

[Goldenmane]

Thanks folks.

Kung Lek: yeah, WordPad is on here, but I'm not all that fond of it. Hence, looking for something else.

[Toby]

3 for openoffice.

Or, if you're writing serious docs like my thesis, you could learn LaTeX . Not hard and you get great results. It's not a word processor though - it's a typesetting language.