It does take about 30 seconds to load, though. PS - Office for Mac will in no way slow down your machine. To do so seamlessly you need MS Office for Mac, I'm afraid. From your OSX side you can 'drag' your Windows Word docs right into OSX and open them with any of the above mentioned word processors. One more thing - BootCamp in OSX allows you to install any copy of Windows that you own (and therefore MS Office). The parameters have to be passed By Value (byVal). I tested it in Excel for Mac 2011 Version 14.1.4. Header file is empty and no environment variable has been changed. MS Office for a Mac works well but I found it disappointing that the bells and whistles don't LOOK like MS Office. Mac OSX 10.6.8 XCode 4.0.2 and the active scheme is set to 32-bit mode. To do this perfectly you will have to purchase MicroSoft Office for OSX (expensive unless your workplace offers you an employer version, then it is cheap like dirt). TextEdit and Bean will open MS Word files but not perfectly. Another free & excellent OSX WP is 'Bean'. Start a text box Select INSERT and then Word Art Choose your Word Art style and write your phrase Highlight it Go to the TOOLBOX section QUICK STYLES AND EFFECTS and choose the abc option. In addition to everything said here - OSX TextEdit has plain text (can be configured to act much like Notepad) and rich text.
