apple word processor

It depends upon the complexity of your document structure and with whom you are planning on sharing. Pages is free and Apple's app but is a nuisance if you run something non-Apple or even if you run something ancient-Apple as I do with my computer. Somebody I'm in a club with sends out the minutes as Pages and I have to open them with Google Docs or something. Word is the de-facto universal format but then you have to pay for Word. Some translation is possible but once you get into complicated structures then formatting translations start to fall apart.

Frankly, for 99.5% of the writing I do I just used TextEdit. I then transfer it into something else for prettying up. LibreOffice is powerful but also free.

I also use Bean. Not supper powerful but does a good job for most things I need to do and I don't have to constantly be referring to documentation to find out how to change a column width or something.

dickbay wrote:

what would you use for word processing on mac?

Depending on the particular word wrangling planned, vim or MacVim, pico, Apple Pages, Scrivener, maybe BBEdit or LibreOffice. Very rarely, TeX or LaTex. Not in a decade or so, Microsoft Word. A little too often, Apple Notes and Apple TextEdit. Which depends on what, where, when, and who-for.

Three options:

Microsoft Word

LibreOffice

Pages