When I bought my (stupid) little laptop it came with Microsoft Office but much to my surprise each component could only be used ten times and although I could continue using Word, for instance to open and read a word document, all other functionality was locked out. I had a copy of Office but it was on a CD and my (stupid) laptop didn’t have the capacity for a CD so what to do, what to do? I didn’t feel I should have to buy another copy when my copy was licensed for 2 computers. (If it sounds like I am whining – I was) and then a friend told me about Open Office. I use Open Office most of the time for my writing even though my new computer came with a full version of MS Office.

ENTER – Open Office which is a free software with everything I…