Microsoft Office Alternatives

Hi,
My younger brother thought it would be a fun prank to uninstall office for me, and now I can't find the install cd.
I need it to write a report, that is due on Tuesday for finals at college.

Does anybody know of a free alternative, even if its like a 30 day trial, that I can use to finish off the report?

Especially if you know of some documentation, that would really help

Thanks, I feel like such a newbie not knowing what to use,

nick1986

 

I recently wrote a website as a school senior project (big 300 hour project that we need to graduate) that covers how to use some free software products, such as openoffice.

http://opensource.nicksteele.us

 

This ones free.
http://www.openoffice.org/

This one costs $39.95.
http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/

Both can read and save documents in MS Office formats. My daughter used Open Office for a while in college. Eventually she went back to MS Office only because that's what they had in school and she was familiar with it. She said Open Office did work for her however.

 

I have successfully installed openoffice thanks to Intranick's website.
the website made it really easy for me and i recommend everybody checks it out

it also taught me how to properly use extensions in firefox, which i never knew exist.

thanks intranick, and thanks everybody else for your help,
nick1986