stompy TextEdit is plenty good enough for normal word processing
And iWork has Pages (word processing / layout) Numbers (spreadsheet) and Keynote (presentation) for less than Microsoft Office.
Or Open Office is 100% free and compatible with over 95% of features in Microsoft documents, so you can work on MS Office created files and the people you give the files to will never know that you are using Open Office.
I don't understand the need to pay for something when an excellent alternative exists that is totally free.
I'm not sure I should really be saying that given one of my clients, but there you go. Best tool for the job, happens to be the lowest priced one.
Or Open Office is 100% free and compatible with over 95% of features in Microsoft documents, so you can work on MS Office created files and the people you give the files to will never know that you are using Open Office.
I don't understand the need to pay for something when an excellent alternative exists that is totally free.
I'm not sure I should really be saying that given one of my clients, but there you go. Best tool for the job, happens to be the lowest priced one.