Free Version of Microsoft Office?

[Threx]

My dad's friend is starting a business and he needs a word program and an excel program but he has no money to spend. Does anyone know if there is something he could use?

 

[Hader]

My dad's friend is starting a business and he needs a word program and an excel program but he has no money to spend. Does anyone know if there is something he could use?

Look up OpenOffice.

http://www.openofficedownload2011.com/

 

[StriderShinryu]

My dad's friend is starting a business and he needs a word program and an excel program but he has no money to spend. Does anyone know if there is something he could use?

Open Office is a completely free open source Office clone. It doesn't just have it's own version of Word but all of the Office programs (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). As a bonus, all of the programs in the Open Office suite can read and save files in formats that work with MS Office.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

Look up OpenOffice.

http://www.openofficedownload2011.com/

Beat me to it. Open Office is actually pretty decent. I prefer the actual thing, but for freeware, it's pretty darn good.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Yeah, OpenOffice. I haven't used its Excel capabilities, and I've had problems going from their version of Powerpoint to the actual, but I know their word processor works like a charm.