Alternates for microsoft word

1. Pages: this is a word processor made by the apple. link to main website: http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/
2. Openoffice.org: this is a similar processor to word and wordperfect. it has a few of the same features. link to main website: http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html
3. KWord: this is a word prossesor and is part of KOffice. it is a free alternative to word but it is based on frames not lines of text. Link to main website: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/koffice/kword/index.html
4. LyX: this is a processor that is used for people that want to make their documents to look nice without to many buttons. link to main website: http://www.lyx.org/
5. Google docs: this is an online word processor and is part of a whole online suite made by google. link to main website: http://docs.google.com/?pli=1#