is there anywhere you can get free microsoft word?

Question

i'm looking for some cheap or free microsoft word or excel. i don't care if it's from 2003. i just like using it better then notepad or wordpad.

Answer 1

FOR STUDENTS ONLY - Office 2007 Ultimate for $59.95 - Offer Ends April 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx

Program Description:
Eligible students may have free access to Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 Trial for a limited amount of time. Each trial provides (1) 25 application launches (each launch of an individual Office Ultimate application is counted as one launch) before the software goes into reduced functionality mode (at which time your software behaves similarly to a viewer, you cannot save modifications to documents or create any new documents, and additional functionality might be reduced); and (2) the opportunity to purchase the following perpetual license for the Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 software:

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Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 (USD$59.95): Perpetual license, which includes the following applications:

• Access™ 2007

• Accounting Express 2007

• Excel® 2007

• InfoPath® 2007

• Groove 2007

• OneNote® 2007

• Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager*(see Obtaining Software below)

• PowerPoint® 2007

• Publisher 2007

• Word 2007


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You can get the Home and Student Office 2007 edition for around $125
You can buy it from Amazon.com

This version allows you to install it on up to 3 computers as long as you are not using it for commericial use

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Office-Home-Student-2007/dp/B000HCZ8EO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-3562530-5023624?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1191021004&sr=8-1


Home and Student Office 2007 COntains
Excel
PowerPoint
Word
OneNote

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There is also OpenOffice. Its a free Office Suite in the opensource community. It is a very mature product.

http://www.openoffice.org

OpenOffice Contains

Writer – Word Equivalent.
Calc – Excel Equivalent.
Impress – PowerPoint Equivalent
Draw
Base – Access Equivalent
Math

Answer 2

The current basic edition of Microsoft Office including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote is completely free at Office.com

Answer 3

You can download a free trial version from Microsoft. When the trial is up, you need to buy the product. It worked for me and I set aside money to buy Office 2007 and got a rebate, so it cost me about 110.00 and works great, has all the programs I need.