Mac Typing program?

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Mac Typing program?

I'm New to using mac and am in need of a typing program. Does macbook come with a typing program like word installed, or is it something you have to purchase? I know it has text edit, but that isn't quite what im looking for?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Mar 4, 2009 6:11 PM

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Answer 1

Lyssa

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Mar 4, 2009 6:27 PM in response to jnash08

In the past, a trial copy of iWork was included with new computers--not sure if this is still the case.

You can give Open Office: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/
or Neo Office http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php a try. Both of those suites are free.

~Lyssa

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Answer 2

BobHarris

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Mar 4, 2009 7:23 PM in response to jnash08

As has been mentioned you can get OpenOffice
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10209910>
which will give you just about all the features found in Word.

You can of course buy *Microsoft Office* for Mac OS X, which will include Word.

But if you are going to pay for something, then look at getting iWork with includes Pages (Apple's souped up word processor), Numbers (Apple's spreadsheet), and Keynote (Apple's PowerPoint only better).

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Answer 3

eww

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Mar 4, 2009 7:15 PM in response to jnash08

And if you don't need all the bells and whistles of OpenOffice or NeoOffice, there's also the simple, freeware AbiWord 2.4.5.

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