>>>I guess it all depends. If you have a license for Office 2000, I would personally use that. If not, try OpenOffice and see if it meets your needs for free.
>>
>>I looked at Open Office Writer really quick. Two things I liked:
>>an ability to create PDF and the formula's support. I think we may install it.
>
>We didn't re-install Windows after all and thus the problem became mute.

This is the third time I have saw this in the past week or two - isn't it moot instead of mute? Moot means "of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic." while mute deals more with sound or speech.

On another board I hang out with (a sports board), somebody was trying to flame and called everybody want-of-bees (instead of wannabes). Everytime somebody says something like mute point we call it a want-of-bee.