microsoft word licence?

[piggynose]

i noticed recently that my laptop doesnt have microsoft word. it has the the word symbol, but when you try to use it, it says i need a licence. is there a way around it? which isnt too expensive. i only want to write some letters

[bibblebub]

use OpenOffice instead, it's free

[sinistra]

I have OpenOffice and find it remarkably good considering it's free. It has a familiarity about it if you are used to using Word.

[beso]

WordPad that comes free with Windows is a very simple but effective word processor.

Find it under Start > Programs > Accessories

[piggynose]

thanx both of yous.
i´m downloading it now. it takes about an hour

[beso]

That is why I recommend WordPad. Most people would never use most of the capability of Word or its Open Office counterpart. Much less the spreadsheet and database.

[bibblebub]

wordpad is a text editor and so doesn't have most of the features that a word processor provides.