![]() Every once and a while I will have a trouble with a. I personally use this and it works great for what I need. Finally there is one other free choice, and it is a program called AbiWord. You can find NeoOffice at and OpenOffice at If you go with this alternative, go with Neo, it is a bit easier to install and has a pretty good community that can help you if you have troubles. Also you would installing all the elements of the program, not just the word processor, so you actually get more than what you need. They both are free, and overall pretty darn good, but they are both ugly and don't fit will into the whole mac atmosphere. ![]() They are pretty much the same thing except that you need to run a program called X11 to run OpenOffice, and for NeoOffice you don't. Your next option has already been given to you, and that is NeoOffice or OpenOffice. The bad thing about TextEdit is that it is REALLY simple and not all that elegant for doing what you want. I have had some problems with elements such as tables or images, but for the basic paper there are no problems reading or saving. First off, TextEdit (already installed in your 'Applications' folder) writes and reads Word. ![]() As for word processors, you actually have quite a few choices. If you do need one, you should know that most (if not all) of them will work just fine with OS X, I've used a few before.įirst off welcome to the world of Macs. Floppies are pretty well dead (thank goodness). You can buy an external USB floppy drive pretty cheaply, but to be honest, unless you need one to read or write floppies for someone else, I wouldn't bother. doc files from Windows to Mac and vice versa, but the same thing happens when transferring between different versions of Office on the same platform.Īs for your question about an "A:\" drive, I assume you mean a floppy drive. Very rarely you might have minor problems with formatting changes when transferring. Word and Excel and PowerPoint for the Mac are very compatible with the PC version. They have a demo available, and the full version is $69, which is much cheaper than Word. I've heard good things about Nisus and their product, Nisus Writer Express. I personally don't like any of the free options, but you might. There are other word processing applications available, some free, some not. It's worth noting that Excel and PowerPoint are also available in standalone versions, but if you want more than one, it's a better deal to just buy Office. The regular version of Word for Mac is $199, you can get it from. The student and teacher version of Word is $89, I've seen it at CompUSA.
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