I think you'll have to purchase it. You can read word documents with the word viewer for free:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

You can get a 30 day trial of the Office 2003 suite for free:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/edit...nfo/trial.mspx


Or you can purchase it on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/OFFICE-2003-PROF...QQcmdZViewItem

$135 free shipping (but you might want to research that a bit more)

Or check out price grabber:

http://ostg.pricegrabber.com/search_...sterid=664448/


What do you want to do with Word that you cannot do with wordperfect, if you don't mind me asking?