Ok I’m not on my computer, and I have to do some work tonight that requires opening and adding to a .doc file. What’s the quickest and easiest program other than word and wordpad I can use? This computer doesn’t have word, and wordpad says the file is corrupt. I know there are pictures and textboxes and the like involved in the file, so I’d rather not use wordpad anyways.
Help ASAP would be appreciated.
Thanks man… works so far!
I also like open office, which is an excellent Microsoft Office replacement. It is free and compatible with MS docs. 
I rock openoffice for all my word processing and sheet spreading needs.
Agreed. OO is excellent!
Maybe I should have tried that instead… I wasn’t able to do the work correctly with AbiWord. Oh well… off to my mom’s minivan!
That doesn’t sound right when I say it.
Open Office is compatible with Word. You will be able to open, modify, save, and create word docs with OO.