The open-source software is completely free and yet offers a complete solution for those who want the functionality of MS Word. LibreOffice Writer is another one that’s always worth checking out. You won’t find incredibly advanced features like those on the full-blown Microsoft Word, but for most people it’s all they’ll ever need. Google Docs is a perennial favourite as the web-based software is free and easy to use. Pages software, which is a hugely powerful tool for creating and editing documents, and also works well with its iOS/iPadOS counterpart app. Any new Mac will come with a free copy of Apple’s

Unless you specifically need Microsoft Word, you’ll find that there are plenty of great word processors out there that won’t cost you a penny.

Alternatively, you can make a one-off purchase for the Personal suite for £119.99/$149.99. This has been its status since at least when Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 was released, half a year ago.These are both also available on monthly subscriptions costing, respectively, £7.99/$9.99 or £5.99/$6.99. You can still open it by going into macOS's Security & Privacy prefpane immediately after trying to launch it, where there will be a button labeled 'Open anyway', but this bogus-why isn't this developer verified with Apple yet? The download page for Apache OpenOffice () has a button labeled 'Important hints for OS X', but when you click on it, the only thing it says about an OS X version is 'Coming soon'.

If you try to launch even the latest version (4.1.11) of Apache OpenOffice under macOS Big Sur (11), and maybe even Catalina (10.15), macOS will display an alert saying 'OpenOffice.app cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified'.

And, even worse, if you save the document in OpenOffice's format (.odt), Word can't open the file. doc format, the new file won't have any of these undesired font changes. docx file in Microsoft Word, and save it as. This problem is at least partly a flaw specific to OpenOffice, because if you open the same. doc-for instance, Palatino gets changed to Times New Roman, 10 point Helvetica remains Helvetica, but it gets changed to 10 point and who knows what else. docx files, but also even some simple formatting options, like the font, font size, etc. doc, but that format doesn't save some of the newer Microsoft Word formatting options you can choose for. docx format, since Microsoft has a copyright on the format-instead, OpenOffice can save files as. docx files, and you can edit them just fine, when it comes time to save your changes, you can't save the file in.

Though OpenOffice's Microsoft Word emulator can open.

Here's a couple deal-breakers against using OpenOffice, at least its current version (4.1.11):

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