Just bought a new MacBook Pro Retina 15" and am wondering what my best solution for managing Word files would be?

Having been used to my PC Laptop and needing to generate and read Word documents - and the occasional Excel and Powerpoint files - I need to get a better solution for dealing with these on my new MacBook Pro Retina 15".
Should I buy Office for Mac? if so, which version?
Or is there a better way?

Why not try Open Office? It's free and file compatible with MS Office.
http://www.openoffice.org

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