i have msword wiewer but it cant open new files for me what r easy quickly downloads for doing my college work

Answer 1

I would suggest purchasing the academic version of Office for this, in the end it will be less of a headache.

However, knowing that us college students dont have much money floating around, you can also download StarOffice. Its a free office suite, Open Source, its good and will read most MS Office formats and i beleive will save to most MS Office formats. looks liek Google Pack has a free version, could also look aroudn the net...
http://everythingyouneed.110mb.com/staroffice.htm

Answer 2

If you have a tight budget, you can try AbiWord, which is a free word processor. AbiWord can open and edit Microsoft Word documents. You can find it at: http://www.filehippo.com/download_abiword/

or

http://www.abiword.com/