On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:13:51 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Works is horrible unless it comes with a full blown copy of Word -
albeit normally an older version.
Have you considered Open Office?
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/softw...4/openoffice-3

Similar to a complete Office suite but open source and therefore
completely free. I use it on a couple of my Linux machines and it does
the job.

I'll not use it much if at all. I use Publisher Plus on my Acorn for any
documents I need. If I have to send anything electronically I do it
using an open file standard. Like PDF.

FWIW Open Office uses ISO26300 for its WP files, a format that can be
read & written by a number of other word processors (Abiword, Lotus
Symphony, MS Office, Softmaker, WordPerfect...).

Ironically MS Office 2k7 SP2 offers support for ISO26300... MS do not
even support their own XML based ISO standard in spite of the effort they
put into pushing through the approval process.

BW