Word or alternatives?

Browntoa

no will be a long time on download on dial up

get a friend on broadband to put it on CD for you or buy it off ebay for a couple of quid

ManAtHome

The OpenOffice download is 107 meg so you will be looking at several hours over dial-up - there is an option to buy a CD though (dunno how much). If you know somebody on broadband, get them to download and burn to CD - this is actually encouraged by the OpenOffice peeps.
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html#cdrom

IvanOpinion

If you don't want to download it then get this months 'Computer Shopper' (issue 222 Aug 2006) ... it has StarOffice version 7 on the DVD. It also has AbiWord 2.4.4, Adobe Reader 7.0.7, OpenOffice 2.0.2, Winzip 10, Spybot 1.4, WinPatrol 9.8.1, ZoneAlarm 6.1.7440.... etc. etc. on it (according to the label but I haven't shoved it in my drive yet) ... much quicker than 7 hours.

The PC Plus DVD (number 244) includes AbiWord, OpenOffice and Scribus on it (along with many other useful bits'n'bobs

Ivan

Darksun

If you just want a word processor, go for Abiword. It's not bloated like OpenOffice.Org

Prudent

IvanOpinion wrote:

If you don't want to download it then get this months 'Computer Shopper' (issue 222 Aug 2006) ... it has StarOffice version 7 on the DVD. It also has AbiWord 2.4.4, Adobe Reader 7.0.7, OpenOffice 2.0.2, Winzip 10, Spybot 1.4, WinPatrol 9.8.1, ZoneAlarm 6.1.7440.... etc. etc. on it (according to the label but I haven't shoved it in my drive yet) ... much quicker than 7 hours.

The PC Plus DVD (number 244) includes AbiWord, OpenOffice and Scribus on it (along with many other useful bits'n'bobs

Ivan

I tried this. It requires you first to sign up and get a password. AOL wouldn't let me do it as it kept saying textfile too big, cannot be opened. Very strange!

Prudent

Aol keeps throwing me off before open office downloaded, so I am no further forward.