Can I transfer Window documents to my Apple IMAC

Want to transfer Microsoft Word and /excel files from my old computer to my new Apple IMac - will they transfer over when I do not have the /windows applications on this computer

Jiri Krecek wrote:
You could also:
Buy Office for Mac
About $100 to get
Buy Pages, Numbers and Keynote from the Mac App Store application
Pages cots $20 and is a counterpart to Word
Numbers costs $20 and is a counterpart to Excel
Keynote is also $20 and is a counterpart to PowerPoint
They can open, edit adn export to XLSX, PPTX, DOCX, etc...
Some custom formatting won't be compatible, but that is marginal, vast majority of the file content will be just fine in these three apps.
Excel macro's won't run, neither will Excel scripts (VBA), Pages, Numbers and Keynote require the document to be saved and then exported to the MS Office format, adding lots of keystrokes to a simple save, formatting in Word translates poorly to Pages, etc etc etc. The OP would be better off with one of the free suites, or MS Office if not. Just about anything is better than iWorks if MS Office compatibility is required.

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