The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency has concluded that "Corel WordPerfect Office, EasyOfficek, Lotus SmartSuite, Open Office, Star Office and Sun's One SE all offer the functionality that schoolchildren and teachers need," according to recent news posted at Silicon.com. MS Works, however, did not make the recommended list.
Gee, I think most of us writing teachers could have told anyone that about Works because it is "too poor to be used in schools." It's just too bad not every teacher knows to recommend OpenOffice.
MS Word Alternative
It took me some time to become really good at MS Word. It took me even more time and a great deal of frustration to become reasonably good at OpenOffice but at the moment, OpenOffice is the only alternative that looks and works like MS Word.
Thanks,
Paul - boxing gloves