Hi, and a realy daft question.

[Rory Manton]

Hi all.

Sorry I havn't taken the time to lurk a bit befor posting but this thing is bugging me.

I have an iMac G5 (brand spankers it is too!) and I know that there should be some sort of office program, word processing, spread sheets etc, but where?

Where do I look, what do I look for?

Sorry to be a compleat prat but I have a sort of hate- hate relationship with BoG's and have managed in the two weeks I have had this "thing " to compleatly balls it up twice so I have had to re-install everything.

Ps. Wheres the spell checker?

 

[croshtique]

AppleWorks is fairly basic and old but has all the usual features.

You should also have trial versions of iWork and Microsoft Office - if you find AppleWorks too primitive then give those a go and decide if you want to buy those programs.

 

[SummerBreeze]

Unfortunately, the only word processor that comes for free is TextEdit, which is annoying to say the least. However, in your Applications folder there should be a trial version of Microsoft Office that you can use until you get your hands on a full program.

To turn on spell checking in Safari, ctrl+click, choose spelling, and choose to check spelling as you type.

 

[yellow]

I have a sort of hate- hate relationship with BoG

Marshes? What's a BoG?

 

[Rory Manton]

Marshes? What's a BoG?

Box of Gubbings, the computer!

 

[yellow]

Box of Gubbings

Ah. That doesn't clear anything up at all.. Clearly, I'm not from the UK.

 

[Rory Manton]

Ah. That doesn't clear anything up at all.. Clearly, I'm not from the UK.

Gubbings

A mass of wires, plugs ,sockets and other "unidentifiable "things held together in a loose package ( computer)that serves no use what so ever other than to confuse poor idiots like me!

 

[yellow]

Gubbings

A mass of wires, plugs ,sockets and other "unidentifiable "things held together in a loose package ( computer)that serves no use what so ever other than to confuse poor idiots like me!

AAaaaahhhhh.. I call that "the internal combustion engine" or sometimes, "my car".

 

[Tigger7]

NeoOffice is a free full featured version of Open Office for Mac.

 

[dmetzcher]

NeoOffice is a free full featured version of Open Office for Mac.

OpenOffice.org or NeoOffice were going to be my suggestions, if you want something free and powerful.