Office alternative or not????

[Jimbo]

Hi,

Im at secondary school at the moment, and with many students i am totally dependant on Microsoft office to do my work and publish it. I need office at home and i have searched many sites to see what price it is. It costs too much even for the student edition. There must be a GOOD alternative for me to use.
PLEASE list any suggestions and maybe your personal uses with this product.
Look foward from hearing from you.

Jimbo

[Stratobat]

You could try OpenOffice

http://www.openoffice.org/

Regards,
Stratobat

[Jimbo]

Thanks ive tried that, it doesn't have some of the needs i need on it.

Thanks anyway!

Jimbo

[the_autopilot]

I'm all for open source, but openoffice sucks.

Just try getting an older edition of office. I'm sure you don't need the XML abilities of 2003.

[ATI_7500]

Open Office rocks, since it's at least as good as MS Office, but totally free!