![]() ![]() But if you don't need to worry about borders, then you can use Pages to work with Word files without a problem. And Pages doesn't do borders in a way that Word likes. As TextEdit is really a text editor not a word processor, there are some things it can't do. They'll also export Word files, so you can send the files back to others. Pages, TextEdit, and other apps will open Word files without a problem so you don't need to redo any work. Or at least this is what happened up to today. So i cant really use any other software as it would keep me to redo the work anytime i share document and files with pc user. If it works, download the others.Ģ DO I NEED OFFICE: Yes, as all my working mates have it. Download the first update and install it and see what happens. Can I install the updates even if I have a trial version? YMMV.ġ CRASHING AND UPDATES: I realized abot the major crashing issue. I can live with that, as I don't use borders for anything significant. The main problem with Pages and DOC files is that the Pages way of doing paragraph borders is not compatible with the Word way, so borders are stripped out of documents being translated to or from DOC. I personally use Pages, and have done so for several years now, instead of Word. You might want to hold off until then.ĥ You can get Office 2008 for considerably less than 200 euros if you look for it. There are other word processors available which can at least read and write DOC files.ģ Which version of OpenOffice did you try? 3.2.x has fixed several previous problems.Ĥ Office is due to be updated to Office 2011 on. Much cheaper than Office, can read and write DOC and DOCX files. Sure you need Office? TextEdit, which ships with the Mac OS, can read and write DOC files. You need to go to Mactopia and download the updates (all of them) and install them in the correct order. Microsoft just released a new update earlier this week. In fact, you need to installĪll the updates, in order. 1 Word has a known crashing problem which was fixed some time ago with one of the updates from Microsoft.
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