Install Open Office. It is supposed to be 100% compatible with M$ Office and you are unlikely to lose your cursor. It is in the usual repositories.
Maybe Office 97. :P
We used it in some limited form during the last few years (Boss wanted to save on costs) and while it's *okay* at handling documents up to Office 2003 (xls, doc, ppt) it chokes on anything made i Office 2007/2010. And as our parent company uses 2010...