

Who knows? But I think the fact that the answer to the OP's post was the one person who made no mention of OpenOffice or Pages is a sign of the type of help that was being sought. It could be because a business environment where Word compatibility is critical (pages is NOT 100% compatible with Word, and even if it's 99%, the 1% can matter if a job is on the line), or perhaps it's a simple love with ease-of-us features such as the right-click thesaurus that Pages I think the bottom line is that the OP asked about Word and expressed a certain level of comfort with Microsoft's offering. May be better than Word (a highly subjective statement with which more than a few (myself included) disagree) it still leaves someone who really has to live by the written word in more or less the same limbo that Word did. To be sure, Pages is a good program, but it's Apple's answer to Word, so it tends to fail in its own unique ways. Both are "fluff" word processors and don't hold up well against more powerful editors (Mellel, for instance). As for "never going back" after Pages, I find it to be little better than Word. Let AutoUpdate install updates and then restart your Mac. After, in any Office application go to the Help menu and choose Check for Updates to launch the AutoUpdate app.

Open the App store and click on the Updates button. Minority of users who don't go with MS Office. Standalone Word purchase on the Microsoft store for 129.99: Word 2016 for Mac. Make sure your Mac has a working internet connection, then: Update Mac OS X. I can only assume the "we" you speak of is the If you like MacOS, you might like to try Pages, it's better than Microsoft Word. In these days, we use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office.
