Author Topic: Looking for Free Microsoft Office for Mac (Read 1058 times)

estahwhaddup · « **on:** September 29, 2008, 01:07:44 am »

I bought a Macbook and i want to install microsoft office, or at least microsoft word. anyone know of any good sites that would have such things (preferably free)? i\'ve looked download.com but i don\'t want to install anything unnecessary or that doesn\'t work. thanks!!

ChrisF · « **Reply #1 on:** September 29, 2008, 02:16:02 am »

go to openoffice.org and get the mac version of open office. its not microsoft office, but their program is free and it does the same thing as microsoft office and the documents you create are compatible with microsoft office.

estahwhaddup · « **Reply #2 on:** September 29, 2008, 03:20:28 am »

so lets say i have to send a msword document to someone (like an employer), this would still work?

Spacey · « **Reply #3 on:** September 29, 2008, 08:37:06 am »

It should work.

When you go to save, there should be a check compatibility button.

krispy · « **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2008, 10:10:16 am »

"pages" in the iwork 08 bundle is cross platform compatible and very easy to use. I sent work back and forth to my work pc with out any trouble.

That you should already have...

tyzack · « **Reply #5 on:** September 29, 2008, 11:52:09 am »

Mininova.org is not more

mininova.org

estahwhaddup · « **Reply #6 on:** October 01, 2008, 08:46:35 pm »

thanks for the info about openoffice. i\'ve downloaded it, but now i\'m having problems installing the application. this X11 thing shows up and there\'s a command box. i\'ve found this link for instructions but i dont know what the hell i\'m doing.
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/Howto_OOo_2.0_MacOSX_english.pdf

any help would be awesome. oh yeah (to krispy): my macbook did not come with iwork08.

freddiewaht · « **Reply #7 on:** October 01, 2008, 08:55:39 pm »

oldversion.com