Think about how much free stuff you can get off the Internet, yet people don’t take advantage of it very often. People pay for Microsoft Office because it’s the “de facto” program, but there are tons of similar programs out there that are free. One of these is new from Google. It’s a word processing program called "Google Docs & Spreadsheets" and it has the equivalent of the Office programs for free. Now, often these programs aren’t compatible with other programs. So, when someone sends you something in Word, you can’t open it in another program. But Google’s program is supposedly “inter-operable,” meaning it can read anything in Word. And if you send something in Google’s program, someone who uses Word can still read it. In addition, it's supposedly Web based, meaning you can check and change your docs from anywhere. Christa is going to check it out and let us know.