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BlizzardWolf

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Does the macbook come with any included word processing program that allows you to save in .doc format?

Paying $150 for Mac office is expensive, especially if you pay $2000 for the macbook already
 
BlizzardWolf said:
Does the macbook come with any included word processing program that allows you to save in .doc format?

Paying $150 for Mac office is expensive, especially if you pay $2000 for the macbook already
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Textedit saves in .doc format. It's missing a lot of features, but it works.
 
Yes and no. TextEdit can save documents as .doc, but it's somewhat limited as far as word processing goes. There are free Office alternatives though such as NeoOffice, OpenOffice, and Bean.
 
JSchwage said:
Yes and no. TextEdit can save documents as .doc, but it's somewhat limited as far as word processing goes. There are free Office alternatives though such as NeoOffice, OpenOffice, and Bean.
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Meh. Textedit works for 90 percent of what I need to do (and I'm a writer!). For the rest, I use Pages. Neo/OpenOffice are too slow for me.
 
BlizzardWolf said:
does TextEdit have spell check or formatting? Is it equivalent to the window's notepad program?
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Yes it has spell (and in Leopard) grammar checking. It can do multiple fonts, normal stuff like bold&italic and even tables. It's much more powerful than notepad, more like a better version of wordpad that can read/write .doc.
 
robbieduncan said:
Yes it has spell (and in Leopard) grammar checking. It can do multiple fonts, normal stuff like bold&italic and even tables. It's much more powerful than notepad, more like a better version of wordpad that can read/write .doc.
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I'd call it more like a bad version of MS Word '95..
 
BlizzardWolf said:
does TextEdit have spell check or formatting? Is it equivalent to the window's notepad program?
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Yes, it does all that. The main limitation for me is that it doesn't handle headers/footers/page numbers. You can type these in by hand, but obviously that's a bit of a pain.
 
Yes it will do the job, there is also the free AbiWord available online, as well as the aforementioned alternatives.
 
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