Apple Word???

[jamdr]

wait... so it's only on tiger now???

Tiger has built-in spellcheck and dictionary/theasaurus support so all Cocoa apps in Tiger will have these features, including TextEdit. But Macs have been coming with Tiger for a long time now so if you are going to be getting a new Mac, it will have it.

Personally, I find TextEdit suitable for many projects. It has many more features than NotePad or WordPad. It does not do everything, but if you need more you can get iWork for $80, or use one of the many free options listed in the thread. Personally, I like iWork because it has a lot of page layout features that I used all the time in AppleWorks. Most word processors don't let you do half the things Pages does in terms of page layout.

 

[BlackMax]

You could try NeoOffice (a port of OpenOffice).

I use NeoOffice. It is a little slow to load, but once it has loaded it works fine.

 

[BlackMax]

That slowness in NeoOffice has been fixed in the latest patch. It opens up pretty quick now.

I responded above before I read this, so I went and downloaded the latest patch and installed it. I went from "NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua Beta 3 Patch 12" to "NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua Beta 3 Patch 15" and I have to admit it loads about 30% to 40% faster.

 

[Dave the Great]

in spanish but

Ahhh, Do you mean French?