Office Suite vs MS-Office?

[Muncher]

I'm starting to need more complex Excel spreadsheets (e.g. with multiple worksheets) but only have MS-Works.

MS-Office is quite expensive. What is a cheap equivalent?

Is there anywhere I can find comparisons of features for various office type software on Win XP?

[willy]

You may want to give the free OpenOffice a try ... http://www.openoffice.org/

[Kaitlyn]

Ya though I use Office on my XP machine I use OpenOffice on every other one :)

Definitely give it a try. Free sure beats any price :)

And of course, it is a very decent suite

[ghandoo]

if you are a student or know a student, you could technically get office 2007 for $64. Thats the whole package.

http://theultimatesteal.ca/

[Kaitlyn]

I'm surprised I didn't originally, but I should also point out Google Docs and similar services.

Google just released Presentation... so now they have Word, Excel, and PowerPoint :)