"Amedee Van Gasse" wrote
in message
...
Charles Kenyon shared this with us in
microsoft.public.word.newusers:

All you could download is either the Word viewer or
a trial version.
The trial version is only good for 60 days and is a
huge download. If
you qualify, you might want to check into purchasing
the Student and
Teachers version of Office. Otherwise, the least
expensive way to get
Word is in the Works Suite.

Do you want MS Word, a word processor made by
Microsoft?
Or do you want a word processor, no matter who wrote
it?

If you really, really don't want to pay for "a" word
processor, you can
download OpenOffice: http://openoffice.org. There are
more important
reasons to use OpenOffice. Money is the least
important reason.

I only give you this suggestion because you
explicitly write you want
to download which implies you don't want to pay for
it. If you do want
to spend money, please buy Microsoft Word.

--
Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.17.4.1

Or, WordPad might suffice, too, especially if he's a
newbie to word pocessing. But if he needs the "full"
Word feature set, OpenOffice won't provide it; he'll
need Word, unfortunately.
That's not a dig at OpenOffice, Write, or any of the
open sources; I wanted to use OO, but, well, not yet
g.

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