The version of Word installed on school Laptops is Microsoft Word 2003 for Windows. We're using Microsoft Office Professional. Some students are using older versions on their own computers. Where functionality is missing, we will try to make do. The alternative is to use a school computer for a particular project. Other students have newer versions and they will be expected to save the document that gets turned in as an older version so that it can be evaluated. Microsoft does offer trial versions of its office software. "Word" is still out on the Macintosh versions. At the very least the dialogs are designed differently so that students will need to do some independent searching for settings.