Complete office suite, even works on Windows 95, with 24MB of RAM (yes I've tried it, but a bit slow)

http://www.openoffice.org/ Windows, Linux, MAC

AbiWord, great free word processor, available for Windows, Linux, & MAC

http://www.abisource.com/download/ this one ran better on the 24MB Windows 95 PC , it was actually pretty usable, and runs great if you have at 256MB +

I use Open Office too, and have nothing but good things to say about it. It can handle pretty much any document that anyone throws at me, which is nice, because now I don't have to have a dozen different programs on the computer for each type of file.

I am also using OpenOffice and I am another satisfied user. Particularly OpenOffice 2.0 is a great product. Speed wise and feature wise it has matched it's famous competitor. I hope many people start using OpenOffice.

OpenOffice is the best alternative to MS Office, sometimes it even beats it it has learned a lot from its ancestor "StarOffice"

Zac

i have abiword and ms office package but i cant install the flipping thing becasue it has been installed too many times... its f ing gay!!!! i prefer abiword much more compatibiliy with other programs and its can handle many more file types than word.
Dan

Yes open office is a great free package