I use Mac OS X.  Do I have to have Microsoft Word in order to open
documents sent to me in Word?  If so, can I buy a Microsoft Word
program without buying the whole Microsoft Office suite?

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 24 Apr 2006 15:00 PDT

Hi Lynn789,

I am posting this as a clarification so you can first try it and then
let me know if it works.

"All versions of Word, including Windows versions, are compatible with
Word X. Users of Word X can save documents with file name extensions
so that Word for Windows users can open the files. Word X users can
also easily open Word documents created by Windows users."
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/resources/resources.aspx?pid=resourcekits&rk=officex&article=/mac/officex/ork/File_Formats_Word.xml

Download a free prerelease version of  Microsoft Word X (10.0) here:
http://www.softlookup.com/display.asp?id=44287


Let me know if this works.

Best regards,
Rainbow

Open Office software can read and edit word documents, and can be
downloaded at www.openoffice.org

Also there is a product developed by people that hate WORD on Mac, but
recognize it's need. The product is called ANTI-WORD for Mac OSX.
(Free)

http://www.ronaldo.com/antiword/