Is there a good program out there that allows me to create and edit word documents? There has to be some freeware software that works good. I tried openoffice.org but the webpage has nothing but a prompt to login. I need something that is compatible with MS office programs. What do y'all use? I'm sick of being a poor student and getting asked to pay for software after buying super expensive books. /rant

Try this free program: OpenOffice

Open Office Org's website is under going a upgrade at present, here is a alternative mirror website to download from. This is the file you need to download OOo_1.1.0_Win32Intel_install.zip http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/openoffice/stable/1.1.0/

If you want to download a split version of OOo instead of the 63.5 mb version, go here and follow the links for win32... http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/openoffice/split-OOo/

See if you can locate Star Office 5.4 (the last freeware vesion) as an alternative

You might also try Abiword... uses a proprietary format of it's own, but is capable of opening and saving Word files... http://www.abisource.com/ Oh, and it's free and sourcecode is available too...