How do I write an essay on my Mac book pro?
I purchased my son a Mac Book Pro for college. He needs to write an essay. How does he do that without purchasing MS Office right away?
MacBook Pro
I purchased my son a Mac Book Pro for college. He needs to write an essay. How does he do that without purchasing MS Office right away?
MacBook Pro
I second Open Office if the idea is to not buy anything for now.
For 99.9% of work required from a college student Open Office would not cause any compatibility issues. Just use it with Microsoft formats (doc, docx, ppt, pptx, etc.)
It wouldn't hurt to check the educational discounts for the college. Some times MS Office would be next to free depending on the deal college has with MS.
Use a product such as OpenOffice.
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He can use TextEdit that is in the Applications folder, but eventually you will need to get Office 2011 for compatibility with the requirements of most universities.
The stock word processor is TextEdit:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2523
Either that or you purchase Pages(Mac App Store), Office for Mac or similar.
This is free:
Were one to go in this direction a better choice would be Libre Office.
How do I write an essay on my Mac book pro?