I don't know abou the US, but here in Britain Microsoft do a special Student's Edition of Office 2000. It's the full Professional version with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Front Page, etc, etc, which retails at about £325. But the same thing on Student Edition is £99.

You go into your computer store and pay for the Student version. They give you an empty box with a form in. You take the form to the school and get them to put their stamp on it, send it off to Microsoft and in about 28 days you get a double CD of Office 2000 Professional through the mail.

My daughter is very good about letting me use all these goodies.

Wassail! V