Office alternatives

I know that some of you do not have any commercial office software package on your computers, but:

a. There are computers on campus with Office software

b. There are freely available office packages like:

OpenOffice
LibreOffice

and here… is a page that explains how to actually get access to even more tools and packages that help you create PDF documents with fancy graphics, IPA symbols and syntactic trees.
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Creating PDF files from office applications

Here are some ways to generate PDF files:

Creating a PDF file from Word 2010 on Windows
Creating a PDF file from Word 2011 on Mac OS X (just Save as!)

Online converters from Word to PDF:
Convert Word 2 PDF
PrimoPDF Online
BCL Technologies


Exporting to PDF from OpenOffice:
Wiki

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Use an online tool for conversion of DOC- to PDF-files

You can use the Smart PDF Creator online to convert a Word document (DOC) file to a PDF file:

Smart PDF Creator
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