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Hey guys it's TCM again, recently I've purchased a new laptop and it came with Microsoft Office 2007 installed, but you can only use it so many times before paying to have it fully activated. I don't have my office discs anymore and I'm not gonna talk about pirating because that's against the proboards TOS. So I went on a search for some alternatives. My favourite so far is GoogleDocs, it's a really nice service, totally a browser interface (in true google fashion), you can save files online for later viewing, upload files, or save it as common extensions such as a Word File, .txt, HTML, PDF, or Open Office, which brings me to my next alternative. Open Office, also free, I first heard about it from a friend who needed it to manage some accounting stuff, who mentioned it was free. I wasn't inspired to find it however, and found it by googling for Word alternatives. I'm downloading as we speak so I can't really give it a review, I've heard good things though. So if anybody out there has tried it I would appreciate some input  . Any other alternatives you guys can think of? Or can you comment on Google Docs and/or Open Office?
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I've used all the mentioned as well as iWork. Honestly... nothing compares to Office. That is your best bet. Except for Powerpoint. You're better off with Keynote from iWork. 
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Openoffice is good, except its weak point is slideshow templates. But you can download free PowerPoint templates online, as well as some templates for OO itself.
Abiword was interesting when I used it, it's a decent word processor, but it's not an integrated suite so I went back to OO.
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I've used Open.Office Writer before. Pretty decent. I've not really used Google Docs. But I do want to use it sometime. Another free word processor that was very nifty in getting what I needed done (without any of the gloss) is LyX on Linux. But that was on my cousin's comp.
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I used openoffice.org's writer, it's really slow for a word processor, my points still go to google docs.
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i use open office. i think its good enough. never used Google Docs.
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OpenOffice is decent, but it's definitely got some bloat to it. If you're just looking for word processing, AbiWord is definitely a good option. I've used it myself and it's pretty attractive and easy to use. I did a search on Download.com and found a piece of software that might be nice- Go-OO. As for online apps, Zoho seems pretty nice. I haven't used it myself.
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I personally use Microsoft Office. Ftw.
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