You need an application that reads MS Word documents the good news is there are many options to choose from. First is you can purchase MS Office for Mac 2011 which is MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Professional includes Outlook. Another option is Pages, this is an Apple App which can read and write to MS Word format. This is available from the App Store for $19.99. Next is you can find free alternatives that are web based such as NeoOffice. If you need to trade documents back and forth with PC users that use MS Office I would suggest investing in MS Office for Mac, you can find it at Amazon for about $100.
Aug 31, 2011 5:18 PM
Open New Word Document Page
Purchase Microsoft Word for Mac to open, edit and create Word documents. Microsoft Word for Mac is available on its own, or as part of the Microsoft Office suite of applications. Mac touch id keyboard. Microsoft Word for Mac, either alone or as part of the Office suite, is on the high end of the price range, however it offers the most advanced features for working. 3 Click the Create button to start a new, blank document. The Create button is found on the right side of the window, beneath that obnoxiously large, blank sheet of paper. Alternately, you can simply press Ctrl+N with Word open to start a new, blank document. The Word window returns to normal and you see a blank page, ready for typing. Open a document on a Mac: For a Pages document, double-click the document name or thumbnail, or drag it to the Pages icon in the Dock or Applications folder. For a Word document, drag it to the Pages icon (double-clicking the file opens Word if you have that app). You can’t open PDFs in Pages.