I use OpenOffice on my Mac, the Linux box, and my Windows XP laptop. With the Mac running OS X 10.4 you need to have the X window (terminal window) to get it started. Personally, I think this free cross platform office suite is great. And you can't complain about the price Kris On Sunday 02 July 2006 2:53 pm, Richard Klein wrote: > Ronald Steinke wrote: > > On 2 July, 2006, at 3:31:23, ProbaleCause at aol.com wrote: > >> I know Microsoft Word is out there and Nicus as well, but what is the > >> optimum one? > > > > If you don't want to spend big bucks, stick with AppleWorks. It will > > read and save as Word if you need it to. > > I don't need much from a word processor at home, and I use Windows at > work, so I haven't tried it myself, but isn't openoffice.org a viable > alternative? > > -- Rich