Open office

With the new office starting at 150$ (education price) and getting a rating of 2.5/5 on the apple website, a free, non glitchy alternative sounds good
Open office is a great replacement for microsoft office, and it can save in .doc (microsoft word's file type) so it is fully compatible with microsoft office!
I see no reason not to switch to open office

http://www.openoffice.org/