OpenOffice.org

Ok, so although I have used OpenOffice.org many times, I decided to create a document, just to prove that it is the equal of Microsoft's product.

To get to the open office writer, you have two options. First, there is an icon on the bottom dock:

Or, by using the program menu in the top left:

Once it opens, you will find it very similar to Office 2003 or XP. I tacked out a little assignment to show how similar it can be. This took me all of about 3 minutes.There are scads of tutorials available here: http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/category_index/wordprocessing.html

There are hundreds of free templates as well here:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/