The Glade 4.0

I'm setting up my 'rents' new lappy and they need a good word processor. Any suggestions? I haven't touched Windows in five years, and back then, Open Office was The Thing.

OpenOffice has forked. LibreOffice is, I believe, the preferred package by FOSS advocates, but OpenOffice is still fine.

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Google docs isn't bad. It autosaves as you type, which can be very handy, as well as being stored in the cloud.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

If they don't need all the bells and whistles, WordPad is free and gets the job done - to a point.
If they need more oomph than that, and can accept the "must have internet access" restriction, a free Microsoft Live account comes with access to all the web-based apps on Office.com:

If they need a full-featured offline word processor, sorry - haven't used anything but Word in a long, long time.

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Forgot to mention...no internet. Has to be totally offline.

I second shuyung's recommendation of LibreOffice. Oracle terminated the driving forces behind the Document Foundation and liquidated them in a workforce reduction. There are some legal issues still floating around out there over a few bits of code, but Apache OpenOffice is the product you remember; LibreOffice is a superior FOSS fork that is working toward the standards established by Sun and the Document Foundation in the early part of the last decade. Oracle OpenOffice is a retail product that like almost all other Oracle products is best left forgotten at this point. *wanders off mumbling about evil, money grubbing parasites*

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