Microsoft Office is a great tool, but fairly expensive. It's goes right now for just under $400. That pretty steep for a lot of people. If you're one of those people, you might want to check out OpenOffice.org, or OOo as it's commonly referred to. OOo is free, open source (that's generally a good thing), can read and write MS Office files, and contains most of the functionality of Microsoft Office. In some cases, OOo has a step up on Microsoft. For example: Excel hasn't yet figured out that time began before Jan 1st, 1900. Yup, so if you're making a list of historical events or birthdates of ancestors and want to sort them, Excel won't help much. Calc (the spreadsheet tool in OOo) handles that just fine. Enjoy!
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I've used Open Office before, and I would probably still be using it if my company didn't offer the full MS Office suite for dirt cheap.
Another thing that Open Office does better is import/attach mp3 audio files to slide presentations, which Power Point has a problem with.
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