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.
[tags]word processor, Mac, software, free[/tags]
