When sumbitting a document for an assignment, it is important that the recipient be able to read and/or print the document with the software that is available to them. Thus you should choose a document format that is widely supported and does not require the recipient to buy a particular software tool. This generally means you should use one of PDF, RTF, TEXT, or OpenDocument all of which can be freely created and viewed via a number of products.
To create a document in these formats, one genrally uses the "save as" feature in the word processor software that one is using. Sometimes, one uses a feature such as "Export as" or "Print as PDF".
For MS Windows, there is a free, open source, software add-on that will allow any program to create a PDF by printing to a virtual printer - it is called PDFCreator (if you do use PDFCreator you likely want to unselct the option to install its "toolbar" and the "Brower Add On" - there are reports such as here that this ends up installing junk you do not want. A no-cost alternative without this type of junk might be CutePDF). For Mac OS X, any program can create a PDF by using the "Print" command and selecting the "PDF" -> "Save as PDF" button.
In order to save a document in RTF/Rich Text Format, a search for the phrase Saving in Rich Text Format turns up a number of links to tutorials for most major word processing software.
Freely available software that can read and/or write some of these formats includes:|
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