Unfortunately though, the program is not flawless. As a stand-alone package, it almost is, but as soon as youve got some other program to work with - particularly Microsoft Office - it all goes wrong.
Microsoft claim that their Works 7 program is fully compatible with Office, and I suppose, to an extent, it is. It opens Word documents, you can edit them and save the changes, but its far from easy. You need to manually set up Windows so that the default program used to read ".doc" files is Microsoft Works Word Processor. Once the documents are open, it runs fine until you try and save it. The default save format is ".wps" and you cant change the setting from this. You need to access the drop-down list to save it as a Word document. When you do this, the files that youve just spent hours properly formatting loose some of the layout, and blank pages are inserted at random. The size of the ".doc" files created by Works are huge. I saved a file of about 8 pages that turned out to be 5Mb. Opened in Word and saved, it went down to 52k.
The spreadsheet function is not in any way, shape or form compatible with Microsoft Excell.

As I said, as a stand-alone package, its superb, but you may consider alternatives such as Suns "Star Office" at roughly £50 or even "Open Office" which is a cut down version of "Star Office" available for free download from openoffice.org