On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:53:16 +0000, Muddymike wrote:

Try Open Office, it's free and will save documents in Word format.
http://www.openoffice.us.com/

LibreOffice is OpenOffice. Or, rather, it was, before the Oracle and Sun
merger took OpenOffice in some unpopular directions.

quick google
Oh, that's interesting - I'd missed that Oracle had handed OpenOffice
over to Apache.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/applicati...enoffice-4-vs-
libreoffice-41-224280
gives an interesting overview. The conclusions comment on document
conversion from Word - but, as somebody already mentioned, even
converting between Word versions can be far flakier than going to either
of this pair...