Most people only ever use about 20% of the applications capabilties.

Open Office will handle most of what MS Office can do.

I prefer MS Office. I have Office Enterprise 2007, which has about 10 applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher.

It cost £35 from Software4Students. Click on this link http://www.faldingworthlive.co.uk/ and then click on Software4Students.

If you have anybody in your family that is still at school or at university, you can buy it legally from them.

It only applies to the UK.