Star Office and Open Office (which is what the free version is now called) can easily process Microsoft Word documents almost as well as Word itself can. It also has the advantage of running on operating systems that Word itself doesn’t support. This makes Open Office the ideal choice of office suite software for anyone [...]

Just about everyone has some sort of word processing program on their computer. Before the advent of the web word processing was probably what most computers were primarily used for. There are lots of different word processing programs around but the ones most commonly used are probably Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and Star/Open Office.
Word Processing