Open+Office

Open Office is a free open source suite of products that resemble and work much like Microsoft Office. This is proving to be a valuable savings to many, it is constantly being upgrades and improved upon. The trick is to save the documents or presentations etc. in the way.

Open Office Tutorials: a wealth of information, tutorials, PDF etc. at learnopenoffice.org.

A good place to start: Open Office Wiki

Text Document -- word processing, much like MS Work 2003

Presentation - slide shows and presentations, compare of Publisher or Keynote

Spreadsheet - basic spreadsheet for data, much like MS Excel.

Database - Use like a MS Access

Drawing - a drawing program to use like paint

Formula -- actually still working on this one.