Your best bet is to use Microsoft Office Online – Or Google Docs if you don’t want to pay for access to Office Online.
https://www.office.com/
https://www.google.com/docs/about/
Can you provide more details about the error? “screen of death” is something hard to debug. Can you see any of the content in the local site?
Thundersax, Absolutely. You can install in your personal computer, test it, add posts, pages, etc and then once you are happy with it, you can just export all content from it to a file.
The steps to do this are:
1- Login to your local WordPress site
2- Go to Tools -> Export
3- Select all the content you want to export
4- Login to the WordPress installation in a server/hosting
5- Go to Tools -> Import
6- Select WordPress as the type of import
7- Select file you previously exported and click on Upload and import
I also agree with wadigraphic – if you already have a hosting account somewhere, you should be able to just install WordPress there and the cost shouldn’t be too high.
Good luck!
