I suggest you download OpenOffice instead. (Unless you need MS Office 2007 to use in a school/college environment, of course. Where everyone is using MS Office 2007, and you are learning about MS Word)
1) Anything generated on a computer with MS Office, can be used on a computer with OpenOffice.
2) Anything generated on a computer with OpenOffice, can be used on a computer with MS Office.
3) There is no learning curve per se.
The userface of OpenOffice is VERY similar to MS Office.
OpenOffice example of Word is Writer.
Information about OpenOffice on Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice
OpenOffice homepage,
http://www.openoffice.org/Screenshots of OpenOffice programs,
http://why.openoffice.org/why_great.htmlOpenOffice is free.
It's open source software.
I've used it for 2 years now. (I likes it!)
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