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thumbs upthumbs upthumbs upthumbs up Open Office  openoffice.org

Word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software, all compatible with files from Microsoft Office. This one is a few hundred dollars less expensive... it's free and open source. Also includes math and drawing modules. This is also a large download. Recent versions have been about 96 megabytes.

thumbs upthumbs upthumbs upthumbs up AbiWord  abiword.com

If you don't need the entire office suite, AbiWord is an excellent word processor that's compatible with Microsoft Word and it is much smaller than Open Office.

thumbs upthumbs upthumbs up PDFCreator  pdfforge.org

Install this software and you can output PDF files from any Windows application that can print. You can also merge multiple files into one longer PDF file.

thumbs upthumbs upthumbs upTreePad Lite  treepad.com

This is a nice freeform personal data manager. The "Lite" version is free.

thumbs upthumbs upthumbs upthumbs up Portable Apps  portableapps.com

This is not a link to one program. The website contains versions of many of the programs listed on these pages, but specifically versions that can be run from a USB flash drive with no further installation needed on a host computer. Just plug your flash drive into any computer running Windows and you can run your own applications, such as OpenOffice, AbiWord, Firefox, or Thunderbird.