"Carlos E.R." wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote:

If I'm not mistaken, Word comes with the full Office suite;

Assuming that you are talking about the Microsoft Office suite (there
are other Office suites), yes it does. But it not only come with the
full suite, it comes with all the smaller editions too.

Is it possible to get Word alone?

Yep, but that will be more expensive than the payware alternatives
already suggested, and infinitely more expensive than the free
alternatives. She can afford $100 to get the standalone edition of Word
2019?

Remember that working from home was the big change because of Covid-19
(aka SARS 2). We all geared up for the changes to distance ourselves.
When there's an effective vaccine, and especially when the death rate
from Covid drops below that for the common flu, we'll be gearing back to
working at work. She could pay $70 for a 1-year subscription to
Microsoft 365 Personal. Then she'll have MS Word without any worries
about document or feature compatility with the alternatives. In less
than a year from now, she might be back at her workplace using whatever
software they choose.

The only reason to look at offline alternatives is she doesn't have a
decent Internet connection, or security mandates from her employer
require no documents be stored online (but then just how is she going to
get these documents in the first place if not transmitted over the
Internet)? With a decent Internet connection, have her try the free
Microsoft web apps for Office. In OneDrive (assuming the aggregate size
of her documents don't exceed the 5 GB default quota), she gets to
decide with whom she shares the documents. Presumably you came here
trying to find a solution at the least cost, if any, for your friend.
Start free, then decide if payware is needed because additional features
are needed.

Sorry, but I don't see a school teacher will be viewing or editing
documents that the free solutions won't support (online MS Office web
apps, LibreOffice, FreeOffice, or WPS). Does she have or would qualify
for Microsoft Office Certification to know everything about MS Office to
know all of its esoteric features that might become problematic with the
free or cheaper paid alternatives?

How much time can she afford to learn a free or paid alternative?
Learning a new program, regardless of how compatible it claims, will
take time. LibreOffice isn't just something you just jump into and
immediately know how to do everything within it that you did in MS Word.
Same for the other free/paid alternatives. If she has to work on the
documents *NOW*, have her sign into https://www.office.com/ (and not get
lured into buying Microsoft/Office 365). Been about 2 years since I had
MS Word, but I suspect the web GUIs even Microsoft's online Office web
apps will be slightly different than the offline/standalone cousins, so
expect some clumsiness in using anything other than what she did before.