Failing that, start Notepad(or Wordpad, or anything you like, but then you're on your own ).
Steven Sinofsky, former Vice President of Windows, joked
that Microsoft wouldn't wait this long to update the built-in apps like Paint and Wordpad ever again.
To write the text you do not really need Office,
you can use the very nice Wordpad which is already installed on 7 windows, vista,