If you don’t know what Open Office is, it’s a free productivity suite that can take the place of Microsoft’s Office program. It includes a program for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations (these replace Office’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
If you are in need of a good set of productivity tools, you can’t beat the price of this one – Microsoft Office will cost you anywhere from $80 on up, depending on which version you buy. My suggestion would be to give Open Office a try, you can always spend your money if it doesn’t suit you. I can tell you that I know of many people who are very happy using it.
There are several sites with tutorials on how to use Open Office; here is a link to a good site, complete with screen shots. Here is a link to download the program; be aware, it is a very large download, and if you do not have a high speed connection you’re going to be waiting a while.
