programs such as word doc, excel, powerpoint etc.

If anything is bundled it will be on there. If you don't see it, it isn't. Apple's equivalents are Page and Numbers and (I forget). You can use the Mac versions of the Microsoft programs, or you can use the Apple equivalents, or you can try third party applications. I think Libre Office is one of the current recommended free alternatives.

I like using Bean for Word documents. It is limited but clean, fast, and free.

Office is not free software. If you need Office, you will need to purchase it.

There are free alternatives available.

Ya, as the others mentioned, if it is not on the machine, you have to purchase it seperately.

There are various solutions for office products:

There is Apple's iWork suite, which is essentally a 'copy' of the Microsoft Office products, there is Numbers (Excel), Pages (Word) and Keynote (PowerPoint).

Then there is of course the Microsoft Office for Mac, which is essentially the normal Word, Excel and Power Point that you are used to, just with a MAc 'interface' so it's different to use than the Windows version.

And then there are free office suites as Open Office, Libre Office, and Google Docs.

There are more options, just google for them. 😝

I personally use a mixture between iWork, Microsoft Office for Mac and Google Docs, all others only if it has to be.

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The advice you've been given is correct but I'd like to clarify one thing. Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) is a set of programs for word processing, making spreadsheets and presentations. They can read and write Microsoft's Office document files but don't take that to mean that these programs look like or act like Office. They don't. Nor do they read and write Office files perfectly. In other words, they are not 'clones' of Office applications. However LibreOffice (which is much better than OpenOffice) do try to be Office clones.

Having said that, I personally prefer iWork to Office and OpenOffice. But I also must stress that productivity software is something of a personal choice so what I like you might not. I must also admit that while I prefer iWork I sometimes find it necessary to use Office - especially Word. This mostly comes up when I am collaberating with a colleague and we need to trade a document back and forth.

I had both OpenOffice and LibreOffice on my computer while I was testing LibreOffice. They didn't interfere with each other at all. Apple sells the three programs separately thru the App Store for $20 each. Unfortunately there's no way to download a demo any longer - a major flaw of the App Store in my opinion.