Originally Posted by
TreasuredBargains
I agree with Ken - use OpenOffice.
I had Microsoft Office 98 for many years and liked it so when it came time to upgrade, I downloaded the free trial version of 2007. It was incredibly slow to use, and crashed several times a week.
I don't know anyone who likes Works, so I searched for an alternative and found OpenOffice. It's free to download so I tried that out and really like it. It's faster than Micro, very similar command functions (I use mainly the documents and spreadsheets) and hardly ever crashes. And, best of all, it's completely FREE!
Oh, and you can save all your documents/spreadsheets in Word/Excel format.