Most WAHMs are on a tight budget when starting out, but this doesn’t mean you can’t get a great word processing suite. If you’re not willing (or able) to fork out the $324.99 for Microsoft Office Standard 2007, then you’re in luck! There is a great open-source, FREE program suite available for you - OpenOffice.org 2.2!

Here is a review by CNET.com:

“An increasingly credible rival to MS Office, OpenOffice.org includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents. Not only does it let you edit basic documents, such as letters and faxes, it also handles complex and multipart documents with bibliographies, reference tables, and indexes.”

Download it and give it a try! Hopefully it will help you manage your business tasks a little easier. Feel free to leave a comment about how OpenOffice has, or hasn’t, worked for you.