I moved various non-techie friends/relatives of mine over onto OpenOffice and now LibreOffice, as OpenOffice appears to be impossible to get updates for.

Easy to configure to pretty much look and feel like MS Office (if that is useful) and fully compatible. And handles .doc better than MS!
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Rory
MkIIa, blue lit buttons, memory upgrade, 1Tb in Subaru Forester STi
MkII, 240Gb in Mark Lord dock
MkII, 80Gb SSD in dock