A good free writing program like word

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So I was paying £10 a month for word to use a few times a year and cancelled it. I now see I can't access or edit anything I've previously done which isn't great.

What do you guys use in place if you haven't got it?
Thanks

I used to use openoffice, it was fine.

OpenOffice too. Very like Word, you can save in Word formats too.

You should be able to open word docs in open office thats what i use it also has a an excel a like and a power point a like too

Great thanks I'll look into it

Have you got kids? Word 365 or free to most pupils / students...

No children. I tried to download what I thought was open office without checking properly and had a warning noise alarm on my pc that I'd got a virus..sigh

Google Docs.

LibreOffice www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

Free and more up to date than Openoffice

The OpenOffice project had a backlog of security issues until recently. It looks like there have been some recent updates, so it may be in better shape than it was, but I couldn't be confident of that.

Anyone still on OpenOffice should consider replacing it with LibreOffice, which has been much better maintained since splitting from OpenOffice.

Use google docs, you can access anywhere just by logging into your email and it provides, a type of word, excell and powerpoint. I have run a business using it. Just save docs to your hard drive for offline use/print.

Definitely Google Docs.
You can use Google Drive to access and store it all for free. I love it.

You can use Libreoffice to save documents to Google Drive or One Drive.

LibreOffice also has a huge variety of input and output formats. The main ones are its own format, MS Office formats, HTML, PDF, text and rich text.

Yes, Google docs! I don't have MS office on my home laptop. And while we have it at work (HE), we're encouraged to use the Google suite instead. I really like it.

You can use the Office Web Apps. They're free to use, open virtually all MS Office documents flawlessly, perform well on a modern PC, and probably have all the features you need.

Your PC also probably has Wordpad. People always seem to forget about it, but it's plenty enough for letters and flyers and it opens .docx files.

Several other options have been covered.

Thanks I still haven't got round to this but aim to do asap