Microsoft Word

Not legit, no. Each version is withdrawn from retail when the new one comes out.

Have you looked at LibreOffice?

Definitely better. It reads some word documents better than old versions of word do, for sure

Version 4 is a lot better than 3 was.

The beauty of Linux is you're not held to ransom by giant corporations. Tons of free applications you just download for nothing in LinuxWorld.

Try Open Office, it's free and will save documents in Word format.

Mike

LibreOffice is OpenOffice. Or, rather, it was, before the Oracle and Sun merger took OpenOffice in some unpopular directions.

Oh, that's interesting - I'd missed that Oracle had handed OpenOffice over to Apache.

LibreOffice and OpenOffice are both available for Windows and OSX, too...

Not from MS no. Best option would be a family pack of office 2010 from ebay.

The MS offering they would like you to go for is Office 365, which will cost you around £65/year as a rental deal. However you are allowed to install 5 seats for that and get some other freebies thrown in like 25 gig of cloud storage.

Note that all the Office 2013 products also require a MS account of some form to install them.

Buy office home and student, it includes word and is about £90.

Use one of the free offices.

I still use 2003. Out of interest, why do you want to 'upgrade'?

libre office is better.

And its nothing to do with Oracle.

probably so he can read the files generated by other later copies of 'word'

Yep, it's good, does doc and docx Almost identically laid out so easy to get the hang of if you're used to Word. A few less of the less used features 0f Word.

My version of word can do that. Microsoft supply a free converter that integrates into the 2003 version. It is seamless.

v4.2 is due in the next month or two, but wait for 4.2.x as that usually addresses the odd little problems found after release.

Though Word 2013 is pretty nifty at converting PDFs into Word documents.

"Find someone" who is a student, or teacher and buy Office 365 from somewhere like here for £53:

I have the new version of Word at work.Do not go near it. The menus are not in a standard format, you will no longer know where anything is. My old 20

Or alternatively try your local car boot sale. I'm still running word

Only because other people I exchange documents with tend to use later versions that my 2003 one can't read.

Jim Hawkins