MS Word look-a-like
 

Ok, I'm probably reaching at straws here, but I <b> hate </b> MS Word. It is pretty much worthless. I'm hoping there is a program out there (free, or close to it) that works like word only better. Any ideas? Anything that I can type on but still save it as a word file for printing on other printers?

Anything...

Abiword is pretty good.
You should also check Open Office

My vote is for Open Office or Star Office

Re: MS Word look-a-like
 

Checkout OpenOffice.org. It's like MS Office, only free ;)

OpenOffice.org is great. And if you're in the educational sector (i.e. a student) you can download StarOffice - basically a proprietary version of OpenOffice.org - <a href="http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/solutions/staroffice.html#StarOffice">for free!</a>

I'm also a fan of abiword, but that's only a word processor, and to be honest OO.o is winning me over more and more every time I use it.