I use a Mac to, and it's hard to avoid Word or Excel. I got into the Explorer habit, but there are substitutes for that. But Word or Excel's another story.
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It is possible to make a (almost totally) clean break from the colossus of Redmond.
I present to you, for your computing enjoyment, Open Office for Mac OSX...
Marketing info...
<http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ >
Download and errata...
<http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html
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All of your Word and Excel objects should be compatible .
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