Mac word processors: beyond Microsoft Word

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Mac word processors: beyond Microsoft Word

Monday, December 24th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you’ve just bought a Mac, you’ll be wondering whether you need to buy the Mcc version of the popular Windows Office suite.

Not necessarily.

Mac’s iWork suite has a word processor (Pages), as well as a spreadsheet (Numbers) and a presentation program (KeyNote.)

iWork is great for 99 per cent of work computing; it saves in the Microsoft formats, so you can exchange files with others.

Free word processing options on your Mac

Need free? OpenOffice.org is a full-featured suite eith an excellent word processing program, and it’s completely free.

Another free word processing program I like a lot is Bean - it does most word processing tasks, but it doesn’t seem to have headers and footers; if it doesn’t, I can’t find them.

AbiWord, also free, has been around for years, and is becoming quite powerful.

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