Microsoft word? word pad? can some one please help me understand?

well i suggest 1st n foremost that u download openoffice. it is a free office kit, and has i think all the equivilent programs of microsoft. its a brilliant piece of software, it will allow you to open microsoft word docs, im not sure about the newer microsoft word 7, but 6 and previous it does. and also allows you to save docs in many formats including .doc for word 1995/97/2000/XP and word 6.0. there are also other formats such as .txt and .odt. i set up a link below so u can have a look and download if u wish. i do recommend, its the best in my opinion

Like several other people who have responded, I think relying on OpenOffice.org Write will help you deal with your situation better than any other solution. Note that this is a full office suite, not just a word processor -- you may not need to create or edit spreadsheets, presentations or drawings, but those applications are also available. Check out this page to understand more about OpenOffice: http://why.openoffice.org/ OOo Write will open a document created in Microsoft Word on your school computer so you can add to or improve it; and you can of course save the document in Word's .doc format. The Microsoft Works Word Processor that you have possesses the same capability of opening and editing a Word .doc file and saving in .doc format. Well, in general, it can; there are some features in Word that Works doesn't know what to do with, so part of the document might be missing when you open it in Works. Note too that Microsoft Word on the school's computer can open a document stored in either the OpenOffice.org or the Works native formats. To do that, you don't double-click on the file to open it, but instead use the File menu's Open command and select the right format in the dialog's File of Type list. See http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/more/worktogether.mspx for more information. One last note -- WordPad is yet another word processor from Microsoft that comes with your computer. It's a stripped-down editor with minimal features and a limit on the length of files it can work with. Moving files between WordPad and Word can also be managed simply (especially if you're just talking about straight text). Wikipedia describes this pretty well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad

If your school computer has Microsoft Word, then when you plug in your flash drive with your document saved on it, go to my computer, open the flash drive, and right click on the document so you can click open with microsoft word. It should convert the document to be compatible with Microsoft Word. Easy :)

Try downloading and installing Open Office (it's available at openoffice.org). It's a free, legal office suite similar to MS Office. It has a word processor called Write which has a lot of nice features. It can also save files in .doc format, which is used by MS Word, so the computers at school should be able to open the files if you save them in this format.

Download Open Office it's free and save the document in windows .doc format. Then you can formated as you like and still load it on a mac, linux or windows PC.

You dont really need MS word to type up something. The only thing that Word offers is more formatting capabilites, templates for things like resumes and all that. If your just typing an assignment up for class, Wordpad is just as good.

yes you can, but you can just download the trial version, if you want.

Your screwed.

you're too confusing...try explaining it in maybe a simpler, easier to understand way, you'll get more help