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    What a surprisem no free Microsoft Office

    Where in the world do I go just to write letters. I just want to write letters on my HP laptop Windows 10 to send to friends. Just a nice place to write letters and NO not notepad. Of course I want to be able to choose to print it from where ever I write them.

    I am not about to pay them extra to buy it.

    Help please!!
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    Why are you surprised? Microsoft Office has always been a paid product.

    Try LibreOffice.
    https://www.libreoffice.org/

    Moving to General & Business Software, since this is not an OS issue.

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    TY for helping. I will take a look.

    I did not add it on when I bought my desktop about 15 yrs ago.

    So I clicked to download and noting happened. I did click SAVE file but nothing happened from there. It says if nothing happens to click the link. WHAT link? I don't see a link.? Maybe I clicked the wrong download do I want Windows X86 or do I need Windows X86_64?
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    It just now decided to download but gave me a strict warning that it could contain a virus so I hope you know if it was safe.

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    If you got it from LibreOffice.org it should be OK.

    If you don't need lots of formatting capabilities, WordPad should be on your computer already under Accessories.

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    do I want Windows X86 or do I need Windows X86_64?
    You didn't tell us if you have 32 or 64-bit Windows. X86_64 would be for 64-bit Windows.

    I just clicked on the downloads and I didn't get any virus warnings. What browser are you using? I'm using Firefox ESR.

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    I'm using Firefox also. I don't know which one I downloaded but it is working. Ay any rate I love it, it has everything but Wi-Fi as my grand daughter and I have that.

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    Hmm. Maybe it was your antivirus then.

    You can also save documents as MS Word docs (.docx) from LibreOffice Writer, in case you need to send them to other people.

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    At any rate thank you for your time. I appreciate it, looks like a good program.

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