Find the free Libre office and free Lotus symphony here :-
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home
Have you tried them; what do you think?
Are there any other free office packages?
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Also consider Google Docs
Google also offers 'free' office software functionality albeit in a SaaS (Software as a Service) model.
I bet most of your clients will be using MS Office products and you will inevitably run into compatibility issues at some point. A couple of hours spent sorting out such issues and you might wish you had just paid Microsoft for Office.
Agree with captainblack
Hopefully all these free products will help keep the MS office product prices in some degree of check, in which case I say thank you very much for that effect but I stick with MS.
The corollary of course is that a lot of clients may be using these free or low-cost alternatives (incl MS Works), and you should plan to work on their files in the same software environment as their creation (whatever the claimed compatibility which is always overhyped). So you probably need to install all of these free products as well.
With kind regards
Clint Westwood