Is there equivalent apps to MS Office for use with macOS

Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are not clones of the Microsoft applications (e.g. Word, Excel, Powerpoint) whose documents they can open and translate into Apple's document formats. Keyword here is translation as Apple does not guarantee that the translation will be accurate or even successful depending on the content in the Microsoft documents. The original Microsoft documents are not editable in Apple's applications and one must then export to the appropriate Microsoft document format with the very same caveats on the export translation process. The fact that what you have created in Apple's applications may not appear the same when opened with Microsoft applications and that may not be universally pleasant.

Yes, the free LibreOffice Suite is a clone of MS Office; can open and save in Microsoft document formats, or export to PDF. But, it comes with a steep learning curve backed up with competent documentation written in LibreOffice Writer.

There is also the paid (free trial) Softmaker Office 2024 or Office NX in single purchase, or by subscription that has a more faithful visual interface to Microsoft applications and can natively open Microsoft documents. It too, has product documentation. These applications can also export to even more PDF variations than LibreOffice.

x2 for recommending the free Apple apps that are probably already on your Mac:

• Pages can read MS Word documents and save to MS Word file formats.
• Numbers can read MS Excel documents and save to MS Excel file formats.
• Keynote can read MS Powerpoint documents and save to MS Powerpoint file formats.

Another choice is SoftMaker Office 2024. It's nearly identical to MS Office for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It does not have an Outlook alternative. For that, I switched to the free eM Client.

SoftMaker Office has two versions. The free version is essentially the same as the paid version, but does not include a spell check.

LibreOffice is free (Donationware) and has all of the features of MS Office.

I use Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. They should have come bundled with your Mac, though you might have to go to the App Store to download them.

I'm rather a neophyte! Please specify how you use those keys. THANKS!

I'm not sure what you mean by keys. If you're referring to "how to use those applications (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), there are several methods of learning how to use them.

1. Starting with the Apple User's Manuals for these applications:
   1. Pages -- Pages User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
   2. Numbers -- Numbers User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
   3. Keynote -- Keynote User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
2. You can purchase books from Amazon on each of these applications. I would caution you, though, to check the publication dates of them. Ideally, the publication dates would be within the last couple of years.
3. Search YouTube for instructional videos on these applications. There are several good ones on each of these.

Check the Applications folder on your Mac. You should see these three programs in there (if they're not already on your Dock).

Hope this helps.

Norellesolitaire wrote:

1. I recently acquired a MacBook Air, to escape the frequent hijackings to my HP-Microsoft-based laptop. My main need is to communicate with collaborators and family. Is there an equivalent SF to MSN's Office 365 for use with Apple hardware?

You can contintue to use Microsoft 365 if you want.

Check LibreOffice at: https://www.libreoffice.org/