Looking for Word equivalent

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Looking for Word equivalent

Hello. I'm just making the switch to mac. What is the mac equivalent to MS Word? Also MS Office, Publisher, Excel, and Paint? I'm sick and tired of viruses and crashing on windows, so I really don't want to put windows programs on my macs. Thanks, Mike

macbook white 2.0ghz, 2gig, wireless mighty mouse Mac OS X (10.4.8) ibook 500, ibook 366

Posted on Oct 15, 2006 11:00 AM

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Oct 15, 2006 12:47 PM in response to cruisermike0

Hello! NeoOffice is a freeware program and Appleworks is Apple's program.Tom

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/61054000/wo/lS4o URwFjpA73eAmcll18fneYPx/2.0.21.1.0.8.12.1.29.1.13.0

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mrtotes

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Oct 15, 2006 4:05 PM in response to cruisermike0

The Mac Business Unit at Microsoft have written numerous version of Office for Mac (Apple Store - $399). These are actually pretty good (better than the Windows versions IMHO) although Mac users only get Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage (our version of Outlook) (No Publisher, Visio, Paint, Access). These aren't windows programmes but full blown Mac programmes. If you regularly work with people who use Office on PCs this may be your best bet. Don't buy the Pro version - this only adds the PC Emulator VirtualPC and as a MacBook owner BootCamp is the better option if you ever come over all funny again and feel the need to go back to the dark side.

As Thomas states NeoOffice is a free version that is largely compatible with Office files but it is a little rough around the edges (but at free versus $400)you may wish to tolerate that.

AppleWorks (From the Apple Store Online $79) is an excellent programme that used to be bundled with (mostly consumer) Macs it included Drawing, Painting, Word Processor, Database, Spreadsheet and Presentation components and was very useful although it used odd file formats so converting to send to PC users (or even other Mac users) was more of a challenge. iWorks is a more modern suite and is Universal (Apple Works is PowerPC chip only so will work in emulation on your MacBook - shouldn't be a problem though. iWorks (From Apple Online $79)only includes Pages (Word Processing) and Keynote (Presentation). So if you're after a whole package you're out of luck with Apple branded software.

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Oct 16, 2006 10:45 AM in response to mrtotes

As for Paint, there are several free drawing programs on OS X. My current favorite is Seashore.

HTH,
~FifthWheel

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cruisermike0 Author

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Nov 2, 2006 9:43 AM in response to cruisermike0

Thanks

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Glynn

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Nov 3, 2006 9:52 PM in response to cruisermike0

There is also OpenOffice.org It is a free office suite that has equivalents to Word, Excel, Powerpointe, Access and a drawing program...its free Plus they have several books and discussion groups available on their site...I myself use MS Office 2004 for Mac and also I use Virtual PC & Office 2003.

Good luck...

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