I’m in the market for a laptop, it’ll only be used for surfing and looking for jobs etc. How do these here Chrome books work with regards to using Word documents? Or shoudl I just stump up and get a windows laptop?

Google Docd, try it from your browser now 🙂 Opens up word fine, some minor formatting issues but you can export as PDF if formatting is important to you. Will open just about any text doc you need

Google or even the online word editor for basic docs

https://products.office.com/en-gb/office-online/documents-spreadsheets-presentations-office-online

LibreOffice is your friend…

https://www.libreoffice.org/

I thought I’d give a chromebook a go about 3 years ago; picked one up for about £100 on here and thought if I can’t get on with it, then I can punt it on again.

Still using it now…… only reason I haven’t upgraded is because this one goes on and on, and has yet to let me down with any of the word / excel / powerpoint type programs that come under the google docs suite. I can import and export MS programs, there was a bit of a learning curve with some slightly different ways to do something but basically if you can work MS you can work Google Docs

Do it…. way better than laptops, IMHO

LibreOffice is your friend…

It’s a chromebook, no need and no version available by the looks of it??