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I use Open Office and find it to be best for me because it leaves all the links live.

George Wright

If you just want a simple report, then Word followed by a pdf conversion will do just fine. Use whatever software you feel most comfortale with and will do the job you need it to do

Thanks for that George. Lately my Word docs haven't converted well to PDF.

You can write in word and convert to open office document. Publish the open office document as a pdf and you're good to go.

I like Google docs. You always have access to them, no matter where you are, and it's really easy to collaborate with partners and outsourcers.

There are a few limitations, but not anything that matters for simple reports. The things I want to do some more advanced layouts for, like books for Kindle publishing, I still write in Google docs. When it's written I do the layout in Adobes InDesign. Well... or outsource it.

For my recent WSO, I used word and converted to PDF. Worked great!

Open office because it's free and sooooo easy to convert to PDF. One click does it.

I used to use Open Office, but have recently switched to Libre Office. For all intents and purposes, it is essentially the same.

From what I have read, it is a fork from the Open Office code base which is more community driven without the oversight of Oracle. It also seems to be updated a little more often.

The reason I switched was Dragon Speak Naturally seems to play much nicer and faster with Libre Office.

I have always just used Microsoft Word and chosen to save documents as PDFs - I don't think it can get more simple than that

Microsoft Word is the easiest one to use. I have Word 2007, it converts everything pretty well.

When I need to make a PDF I just design it in WordPad, then convert to PDF with Nitro Reader.

www.nitroreader.com

I use Word and neevia to convert the word document to PDF.

Never had any problems with this setup.

Hi guys, I use the newest version of word for my ebooks and never had a problem at all. You can save your document as a PDF right away and not a plug-in or anything.

Allen

Open Office here, too - both for the links and the one click PDF -- 2 or 3 clicks if ya want to lock it. Like OO for the actual formatting better than MS, too.

I mainly use PowerPoint (I know, seems a bit odd) and convert to PDF, but looks like I need to hop on the Open Office train.

you can use wordtopdf converter . google "wordtopdf converter" .

I always used Open Office and then the one-click solution to PDF.

But for some reason Open Office quit working on my computer and I cannot figure out why. All scans for viruses turn up nothing. No idea what happened, there.

So, I download Libre Office (where the old Open Office developers went to when there was a shake-up at Open Office) and it works even better than Open Office ever did, for me, and is essentially the same program.

It just seems to run faster and not crash as often as Open Office while having all the same features. So I use Libre Office, and when I make it a PDF, use the same one-click export to PDF feature that Open Office has.