Hi folks,
I use abiword also, and it does what it has to do.
Never any problem. Start-up time right,
polonus
Hi Bob...Wow, that goes back a ways!
So do I… ;D
Thanks for all your suggestions.
I like MS Office 2007 very much. I use this in my home. I don’t have any problem with resources in my home PC.
The reason for requesting a light weight word app was that I wanted a program that I can take it to college and use it on multiple college computers.
I have a lot of project where I have to type a lot but the college computers are filled with malware and very slow.
I am even afraid to check my Gmail there.
I am pleased with Abiword 
I only know 3 clean pc at school with my password!
You can try to ask if you can create an account there
@ ardvark
I think it is better not to tell the IT department because they really don’t know anything about malware.
They only know how to block Facebook and MySpace.
Hi…
Do you mean they don’t know how to go about removing it? What AV and AS programs do they have installed on their systems? ???
God bless 
If I understood correctly, you’d be using it strictly for plain-text stuff. For things like that, I’m quite happy with Notepad, especially now that the old ridiculously low file-size limit is gone (at least on my XP). If I need something a little fancier, Wordpad will usually do the trick for me.
A few responders mentioned abiword. It was voted by ZD Net as one of the top 25 freebies for 2009.
At my school they don’t even care about viruses :(…They have avast 4.7 in it and don’t even bother to update them plus sometimes they disable the connection for students not to surf web pages with permissions :-\
@ ardvark
Hmm…
I have seen Norton on many PC’s but when I take my USB disk home, Avast will start screaming.
Hi Chris and Shiw…
You still might want to try addressing this with either the IT departments or the administration office. If nothing else, it might raise more awareness of the problem.
It’s a hazard for everyone using these systems. 
God bless
I know how scary situation it is. I have often complained to the IT dept. But they don’t care. :-X
Hi Chris…
Hmmm…
Yeah I should talk to them!
They don’t care much about viruses!
Hi Shiw…
You and Chris have said the same thing and I find it totally bizarre! ???
God bless
I generally don’t use any public PC to check my mails because some people have Keyloggers installed on purpose to steal passwords.
Yeah, my college IT dept. is crap.
It is a shame that both of you go to colleges that are probably indirectly responsible for infecting thousands of computers each year because of inept IT departments.
In this day and time, there should be a way to bring criminal charges against such inaction that involves so very many computers.
It’s called the sack, if they can’t or don’t want to address the malware problem, then they simply aren’t fit for the job, fire them. There have to be plenty of IT people looking for jobs right now.
lol a bit too soon to call mine a college^^"
Hehe I’m 14 yrs old and I don’t know how you call it there but here we call it college.