Best Program for a Newbie to Create Flyers and brochures?

Try Pages, available trom the App Store.

Cheers

Pete

MS Word is also an option.

Definitely Pages from Apple. It's all pretty much drag and drop. There are also plenty of templets available on the web. Just do a search.

MS Word as an easy-to-use page layout app suitable for a "newbie"?

In the spirit of Open Source, look at Scribus http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus

It'll do Waaayy more than flyers and BCs.

CCC