what is the best word processor to use with Tahoe upgrade

There is also SoftMaker's Office 2024/NX office suite for macOS that is supported from macOS Catalina onwards. Free trial, then choice of subscription or single purchase. Less expensive than MS Office, and probably more compatible than the free LibreOffice.

I just re-upped from Office 2021 Home and Business for Mac to Office 2024 Home and Student for Mac. Cost 159USD from StackSocial. Probably should have done Softmaker solution though…

LibreOffice often recommend as an alternative to Word and the built-in Pages.app

macOS | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite

a light weight word processor often over looked:

Bean: a macOS word processor

Apple’s Pages is already in your Mac.

Pages - Apple

There are other options like LibreOffice.

SoftMaker's site is weird. They make it awfully difficult to find their products. The main page only shows the subscription NX version, and there is no link to the perpetual license 2024 version. You have to hunt for it.

https://www.softmaker.com/en/shop/softmaker-office/purchase

I just got an email from them asking if I want to join a beta group to test new features. I'm guessing this means a 2026 or 2027 release is in the works.

To avoid paying for the 2024 version and then maybe paying for an upgrade less than a year out, a person could use the free version in the meantime.

https://www.freeoffice.com/en/download

Does basically everything the paid versions do, but with no spell check and ads shown on the right side of the apps.

Edit: A person can also save $40 on the perpetual version at B&H Photo Video and a few other places. But the best offer may be in the free version. That's the one I started with and a side add offered an upgrade to the full version for only $29.

Just to add, you can use Word for free online: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/free-office-online-for-the-web

What’s “best” is subjective and highly dependent on features you need. I use Pages. I have used Word since before it even ran on Windows and I have to use it at work.

Yes, SoftMaker's site has become a jungle…

It's like they want users to find only the most expensive version. You have to click through under the only presented version.

That gets you here:

https://www.softmaker.com/en/shop/softmaker-office

Where you have to click through again on the Learn more button to see the subscription pricing, if that's your preference.

Finally, you see the pro version is $49.90 per year, and the home version is $29.90 per year.

So far, in the time I've been using their suite, it appears a new version comes out every three years. That makes the home subscription a bit cheaper than the perpetual license. Though not by much. As they seem to be working to make it harder to find the perpetual version, it may simply no longer exist in the near future. That's what MS keeps saying about Office, but they haven't done it yet.

Microsoft Word works fine on my Mac on Tahoe, maybe try reinstalling it?

RandomUser360_human wrote:

Microsoft Word works fine on my Mac on Tahoe, maybe try reinstalling it?

For me as well, but many people have perpetual licenses that only support the latest 3 versions of macOS.

neuroanatomist wrote:

Barney-15E wrote:

I have used Word since before it even ran on Windows …

I started on WordStar. The Save command was Ctrl-K,K,Y. Because UI. 😉

I used that for many years due to work, but that was after my 128k Macintosh.

Barney-15E wrote:

I have used Word since before it even ran on Windows …

I started on WordStar. The Save command was Ctrl-K,K,Y. Because UI. 😉

neuroanatomist wrote:

I started on WordStar. The Save command was Ctrl-K,K,Y. Because UI. 😉

I still miss WordPerfect...

Yes, SoftMaker's site has become a jungle… and thanks for mentioning FreeOffice.