I need to open .doc on my Mac but haven't got Word installed.
I remember downloading Open Office for my PC a while ago but not sure if I can do a similar thing with my Mac.

Is there any free programs I can download and use and where can I get them from ?

Thanks in advance

Have a look at

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/free-office-software#mac

You shouldn't have any problem finding a viewer. If you want to edit a PC Word document, that might be more difficult.

you can get mac versions of open office from their downloads page:

http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US

Yep, Open Office for Macs is recommended! You can get it for pretty much anything nowadays...

Thankyou, now sorted!

Imagine if there was some way you could search the internet and it would find stuff like this for you...... I guess even there was, people wouldn't use it.....

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=openoffice+mac&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

:rolleyes:

Otherwise get a googledocs account and import it, then you can do what you like with it :)

Yep, Open Office for Macs is recommended! You can get it for pretty much anything nowadays...

Avoid OpenOffice for the Mac, especially if you have a Power PC processer. Use NeoOffice, it uses the OfficeOffice engine but doesnt require the X11 shizzle.

(The Mac OS X application) "TextEdit supports a number of Word features, including tables, but some other features may not be supported" - words taken from "About document formats" in Help in "TextEdit".