Whenever most people think of work software, they usually think
of Microsoft's outstanding suite of programs collectively called
Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook or Entourage and the
numerous other bits and add-ons that come with them, depending
on which exact version of Office you're using.  There are plenty
of versions of Office and they all cost money, ranging from
roughly £100 to over £300, which isn't exactly cheap.  Free from
Windows  The clunkily named OpenOffice.org, though, is an
extremely powerful alternative that seeks to liberate the world
from MS Office in the same way that Linux has tried to rescue
Windows users from their Microsoft shackles.  It includes a word
processor (Writer), spreadsheet application (Calc), and
presentation software (Impress) as well as a database manager
(Base) and graphics creation package (Draw). And it's all free:
you can download it at no charge.  The trouble with free,
particularly when it does so many things, is that it can be a
bit rough-and-ready compared