Help A Technophope

[yansee]

I want to type letters on my laptop which is a windows 7 and want to type letters that i can then print/email but i can`t find where to go for this function ?

[factor-fiction]

Have you got microsoft office or some similar package installed? If not you can either buy it or download a free package such as Open Office

[SlackAlice]

The main free ones are:

OpenOffice
https://www.openoffice.org/

Libreoffice
http://www.libreoffice.org/

They are almost the same. Save any documents as .doc format and then most people can open them and read them. Especially useful if you email them as well.

[Buenchico]

As has effectively been indicated, Windows 7 doesn't come with a fully-functioning word processor, such as Microsoft Word. (Microsoft would like you to pay them lots more money to buy it). However, as Fender62 has stated, it does have Wordpad (which is a very basic word processor), which can be found within 'Accessories'.

If you want a proper word processor you definitely don't need to fork out for Microsoft Word. OpenOffice Writer (as recommended by SlackAlice) will do everything you want. (LibreOffice and Kingsoft Office are equally as good - all of these programs are free).

However (as SlackAlice has indicated) it's important to note that, by default, each of those programs will save documents in their own formats if you simply click 'Save', rather than 'Save As', meaning that users of Microsoft Word won't be able to open them. SlackAlice's method of using 'Save As' allows you to save in a format which is compatible with Microsoft Word but it's probably better to change the default setting to make OpenOffice Writer save in Microsoft Word format by default:
http://voices.yahoo.com/how-set-openoffice-writer-save-as-microsoft-11017880.html

All of the above free programmes are full office SUITES. (i.e. they come with programs equivalent to Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint as well as a word processor). If you ONLY want a word processor, Abiword is well worth a look:
http://www.abisource.com/

[yansee]

Thank you all but i tried downloading the free open office and my anti virus stopped it, it was contaminated so don`t use it

[Buenchico]

If you used the link here for OpenOffice
https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
any virus report is almost certainly a false-positive.

OpenOffice is widely used by local authorities, schools, police forces and major businesses (and anyone else who doesn't like adding to Bill Gates' fortune, including me!) and is 100% safe as long as you download it from the official website.