Free office suite program looks a lot like Microsoft Office

Open Office is a free program that has many of the features of Microsoft Office. The average computer user, or even small business owner, may not want to invest hundreds of dollars in Microsoft Office. Open Office is a full-featured office suite which includes a word processor, presentation program (resembling Powerpoint), a spreadsheet program, a vector drawing tool, and a data base program. The program is available in many languages, including Irish Gaelic , Scotch Gaelic, Hindi, and Esperanto, Japanese, and German. Updates are free.

Open Office is a multi-platform program, meaning that it is compatible with Linus and Mac. It works with many other office suite products. I've used it to open Wordperfect documents received in an e-mail attachment. Users who are computer-savvy may participate in the development of the program.

http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/new.html