Word-less.... is it possible?

[seattlemac]

I hate MS Word for Mac. Can anyone suggest a good alternative? Something that will read and save to Word format so I'm not alone on the island?
Thanks

 

[okrelayer]

iWork : Pages ?

 

[r.j.s]

Neooffice, OpenOffice ... There are a dozen Word alternatives.

Please search for in depth details.

 

[Ivan P]

I hate MS Word for Mac. Can anyone suggest a good alternative? Something that will read and save to Word format so I'm not alone on the island?
Thanks

Get iWork. It's Apple's own office suite. It includes Pages (the alternative of Word), Numbers (Excel) and Keynote (Powerpoint). It also allows you to export your file as the Windows counterpart, for if you want to use it with MS Office (for example, if I wanted to read a Pages document on a Windows computer, I can export it as a Word file). Similarly, I believe it also opens Word files. Works great, and does exactly what you want.

 

[seattlemac]

okay cool. I love Pages, I didn't know it does that.
How about for Excel?

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

okay cool. I love Pages, I didn't know it does that.
How about for Excel?

Numbers, included with iWork.

I've found Excel to be faster eek, though.

 

[Ivan P]

okay cool. I love Pages, I didn't know it does that.
How about for Excel?

Numbers. Also part of iWork. Exports in Excel format too.

EDIT: Bah! Beaten!

 

[CaptMurdock]

okay cool. I love Pages, I didn't know it does that.
How about for Excel?

Numbers, of the iWork suite, will open and save to Excel format.

 

[r.j.s]

Numbers, of the iWork suite, will open and save to Excel format.

Numbers is lacking many of the advanced features and formulas that Excel has. If you rely heavily on Excel, you'll need Excel.

 

[seattlemac]

Numbers is Excel-lent for me.
Thanks again

 

[miles01110]

There are many threads about this already.

 

[Melrose]

I understand Word is a powerful app, I can't stand the way Word works - I just don't like the interface and the way it interacts.

I have Pages and I love it. Worth the $80.

 

[ChocolateJesus]

Call me old-fashioned, but I find TextEdit to be a good, baseline word processor. When I need to doll up the document (ie. for resumé, school reports, etc), I use Google Docs and export as PDF. Baddabing.