What do you do when the professor wants an electronic document in MS Word, but you don't have this program? Well, there are quite a few possibilities, but here are three.

1. The first thing you should check is if you can save your document as an .rtf (rich text format) in your program. Usually, when you click on "Save as", a dialog box comes up and close to where you click on "Save" is another box that lets you choose the "File Format." If that's possible, just choose .rtf (rich text format) and MS Word can open it.
2. Another possibility is to download the OpenOffice suite from the OpenOffice website. It's free. After installing, you can use it to create documents compatible with MS Word.
3. A third possibility is to open a free google account at Google Docs & Spreadsheets. You can type your document online and export it as an MS Word compatible document.