{"id":23898,"date":"2012-03-19T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T10:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=23898"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:51:30","slug":"how-to-open-word-documents-on-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-open-word-documents-on-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"How to open Word documents on Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OS X doesn&#8217;t come installed with software to open Microsoft Word documents, and unlike Windows, Microsoft doesn&#8217;t provide a <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-office-word-viewer-2007.en.softonic.com\/\">Word Viewer<\/a> for Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are other ways of opening Word documents on Mac without having to purchase <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-office-2011.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Microsoft Office for Mac<\/a>. Here are a few of them:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Open Office<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23900\" title=\"OpenOffice\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/openoffice-org-6.jpg\" alt=\"OpenOffice\" width=\"568\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/openoffice-org-6.jpg 700w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/openoffice-org-6-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>OpenOffice<\/strong> is a multi-platform and multilingual office suite that is compatible  with all other major office suites (meaning it will open and edit Word,  Powerpoint documents etc). Best of all, its absolutely free to use.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Download OpenOffice.org\" href=\"http:\/\/openoffice-org.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download OpenOffice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>LibreOffice<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23901\" title=\"LibreOffice\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/LibreOffice.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/LibreOffice.png 800w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/LibreOffice-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like OpenOffice, <strong>LibreOffice<\/strong> boasts a comprehensive set of office management tools arguably on par  with Microsoft Office itself. Mostly importantly, however, it <strong>opens Word documents<\/strong>. LibreOffice  offers six different office management tools to meet your project  management needs: Text Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing,  Database, and Formula.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Download LibreOffice\" href=\"http:\/\/libreoffice-mac.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download LibreOffice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pages<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23907\" title=\"pages2\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/pages2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/pages2.png 630w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/pages2-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a><strong>Pages<\/strong><\/a> is Apple&#8217;s answer to Microsoft Word, although it can take  some getting used to if you&#8217;ve used Word all your life. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not free\u2013 it comes as part  of iWork, which includes, among other things, the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/keynote.en.softonic.com\/mac\"><strong>Keynote<\/strong><\/a> presentation software. That being said, it&#8217;s relatively inexpensive compared to Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Download Pages\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Pages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Looking for more options? Google now offers a full suite of apps, including <a title=\"Google Docs can replace your word processor\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/google-docs-can-replace-your-word-processor\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Docs<\/a>, <a title=\"Google Sheets is easy to use, difficult to master\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/google-sheets-is-easy-to-use-difficult-to-master\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheets<\/a>, <a title=\"Google Slides: easy to use with lots of options\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/google-slides-easy-to-use-with-lots-of-options\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slides<\/a>, and <a title=\"Google Forms and Drawings are tools you probably don't know about\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/google-forms-and-drawings-are-tools-you-probably-dont-know-about\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drawings<\/a>, which could be the next great replacement for Microsoft Word, compatible with all OSes and based in the cloud.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OS X doesn&#8217;t come installed with software to open Microsoft Word documents, and unlike Windows, Microsoft doesn&#8217;t provide a Word Viewer for Mac. Fortunately, there are other ways of opening Word documents on Mac without having to purchase Microsoft Office for Mac. Here are a few of them: Open Office OpenOffice is a multi-platform and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-open-word-documents-on-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to open Word documents on Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-23898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333874,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23898\/revisions\/333874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23898"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=23898"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=23898"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=23898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}