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Writer1111 wrote:
I love how portable and light the MacBook Air looks and I'd like to buy one. The main things I will be using it for are: word processing, web, email.
1. Does the MacBook Air come with a word processing program of any sort?
2. If I were to install Microsoft Word onto the laptop, would it slow it down considerably? (Word is what I'm using now on my old laptop)
Paula
1) no but you can buy Pages from the mac App Store for $10. This is a better solution than Word for most users.
2) If your version of Word is recent (2008 or 2010) it won't slow down the MBA any more than is typical for Office. If you are running the older Office 2004 products you will see performance loss because of the Rosetta interpreter.
Jan 11, 2011 9:54 AM
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The default format for documents that you create for your business using the Mac’s native word processor application TextEdit is RTF, or Rich Text Format. An RTF document includes formatting for options such as bold, italic and underlining, and is sufficient for creating most business documents. However, if you need to give someone a copy of the document saved as a Microsoft Word file, you can easily convert it using TextEdit.
1.Double-click the document to open it with TextEdit on your Mac. Alternately, right-click the document, then click “Open With” from the pop-up menu, and then click “TextEdit” to use Apple’s native word processor.
2.Click “File” from the TextEdit application menu, and then click “Duplicate.” TextEdit creates a duplicate of the document, with the word “copy” appended to the document’s name. Close the original document.
3.Click “File” from the TextEdit menu once more, and then click “Save As.” A dialog box appears.
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Type a name for the document, such as by adding “Word Version” to the original document’s name. Click a folder on your Mac where you want to save the Word version. Click the “File Format” drop-down menu, and then click “Word 2007 Format (docx)” to save it in a format that the latest version of Microsoft Word can open. Select “Word 97 Format (doc)” to save the file in a format readable by earlier versions of Microsoft Word.
5.Click “Save” to save the file in the format and location you specified.
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