Mellel is very responsive and fast and makes referencing and creating a table of contents for large documents easy.Īlthough Mellel saves documents in its own format, you can save it in. Some users feel Mellel is more tailored for professional writers than Word for Mac which tries to cater for everyone. However, it’s a very suitable Word alternative, especially if you need multilingual support as Mellel supports Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Syriac. Mellel is a powerful word processor that focuses on scholars and those doing technical writing. You can read our full review of Pages for more.

Menus are laid out differently and the “logic” behind it is slightly different to Word but when you get used to it, it’s amazingly easy to use with very smart results. Pages also takes some adapting to if you’re only used to using Word. In an effort to work on all platforms and appeal to all users though, Pages has had to sacrifice certain features on Mac and it sometimes feels a bit “lightweight” and less professional than Word. If you’ve got an iCloud account, you can also share Pages documents to it and continue editing on your iPad via. Two engineers created NeoOffice in 2003 when they made OpenOffice run natively on OS X for the first time.Pages is Apple’s free answer to Microsoft Word and over the years it has become a very competitive alternative.Īlthough Pages was originally part of the iWork suite, Apple now allows you to download it for free from the Mac App Store.Įven better, for those that have upgraded to OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Pages is free too as Apple has made the entire iWork suite free for Yosemite users.Īs you would expect from an Apple product, Pages is extremely slick with some fantastic looking templates that make your work and documents look really professional. With NeoOffice, you can view, edit, and save OpenOffice documents, LibreOffice documents, and simple Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. NeoOffice is an office suite for Mac that is based on OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

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