have you tried this?

Open Office?

I use it for my word needs, and more. It's free, and seems awesome.

just download it and check it out. It can open the microsoft shit, but I'm not sure that microsoft supports all the Open Office formats, or whatever. It might just be the file extensions that are used by Open Office by default aren't supported by microshit and you might have to save them as .doc or something, either way 1 cent thrown your way.