Saturday, November 20, 2010

What is Apple - IMac's ';word'; document?

The IMac is my home computer (new) and I need simple navigating instructions on what is similar to the Word document and how to change text and fonts. I can not use my office computer (Dell) to revise my resume and this is the system I am only use to working with. Please help.What is Apple - IMac's ';word'; document?
The application that comes with Macs is called TextEdit (found under Applications). It's better than WordPad, but it's worse than Word.



The Apple equivalent is iWork with Pages being the Word processor (though most people just get the Mac:Office regardless of it being more than iWork).What is Apple - IMac's ';word'; document?
It is called Pages. Works like word. The icon is a purple ink jar with a pen accross it.
Your mac probably came with a free 30 day trial of Microsoft Word -- check the discs that came with it.



If not, use Neo Office -- it is free open source software, and it can open and save Word documents



http://www.neooffice.org



Hope this helps!
There is also a free open source suite called Open Office, which does what MS Office does, if you need that kind of capability.



Text Edit, from Apple is a very simple program, without many features. It's a good copy %26amp; paste tool, which does let you use any font, so you can add some style to your resume.

But if work is your need, I'd suggest the free open source versions listed here...unless your boss will flip for a full MS suite for you.

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