Free Mac Word Processing Program?

[char]

My MS Word and Pages free trials have expired. Is there a good word processor other than the stock text editor that has some of the features of either Word or Pages?

Or should I just spend the money on Pages?

(I don't do a lot of word processing, but just enough that it would be nice to have a semi decent program.)

[hemas]

Open Office...

[Staggerwing]

NeoOffice

[Arnold Pants]

Google documents is not bad, actually. But you have to online all the time.

[wi3dzmin]

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[Colorado_Freeskier]

Don't waste your money on MS Office...download OpenOffice or NeoOffice (open source programs). They are essentially the same program, though I think you'll have to have x11 to run OpenOffice. Both compatible with MS files.

http://www.neooffice.com/

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.html

[char]

Thanks. I'll be downloading tonight.

[jed peters]

limewire.com

Of course I'd never steal software. But some people do.....

[char]

Ok, apparently I don't have x11 and I don't even know what I'd do with it once I get it. Does it just automatically run in the background? Total computer idiot here.

[XtrPickels]

you can get x11 from the apple.com website or from install cd's. When you open open office, it opens x11 with it

[fez]

another vote for open office.
though i must say i just got MS office 2007 and it is pretty cool.

for an office suite that is.

[Colorado_Freeskier]

you can get x11 from the apple.com website or from install cd's. When you open open office, it opens x11 with it

Exactly. I actually installed both Neo Office and Open Office on my mac and if I remember correctly, Neo Office is the one that doesn't pop an x11 window. They have all the functionality a normal user would need...though doing slide presentation charts can be cumbersome in both.

[char]

Up and running, looks pretty good so far.