Any wordprocessing programs compatible with MS Office?

Question

My son needs a word processing program that is compatible with MS Word. He types up assignments and the like at home and emails them to school. I tried a program called Abiword, but when the teacher opened it at the other end she couldn't make sense of it. I'm currently downloading OpenOffice.

Answer 1

Openoffice is a good choice. The other freeware option is
abiword http://www.abisource.com/
IBM also has a free productivity software suite call "Lotus Symphony" (beta version), based on open source software from the openoffice.org that contains a word processor, spreadsheet program and a presentation application
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa

Good luck

Answer 2

yes OpenOffice will do the trick.

There is a setting in oO that you should select, or even during the installation, it asks "associate OpenOffice with Word, Excel, etc"

When you set OpenOffice to save as a Word file and open Word files it's pretty seemless. OpenOffice is great. I've had it installed on a spare PC for about 2 years now.

Answer 3

OpenOffice is the best pick and its free... It uses Java and might be slow on computers with less than 256MB of RAM.

Answer 4

the two Open workplace 3, and AbiWord, can save in MS-workplace report formats, and OOo may additionally save information in PDF format. once you pass to save a checklist, look on the "save as..." field (under the report call field), and decide "MS-workplace ninety seven - 2003" report format. you additionally can set this as much as do it right now, in OOo's procedures TAB > techniques > Load / save > Microsoft workplace.