Word processors that don't lose data?

I'm about to get my first iPad. My wife, who goes back to the iPad 1, just lost hours of work yesterday to a corrupted file. In both our cases, the most important business-like use cases are word processing.
Features we both want include:
Doesn't rely on internet connectivity to work.
Has an AutoSave that works. Failing that, has a really simple UI for saving a file (in particular, one that doesn't require entering a new file name).
Has a Save As that works. Failing that, has some other way to make snapshots, preserving one version of document while one goes ahead and tries out further edits.
Saves documents in a format that Microsoft Word is happy to read and write.
We differ in how completely seamless we want Microsoft Word interoperability to be. I'd be happy to read/write .txt files, and have a separate program that handles .docx files well but suffers from other limitations. She wants something that plays nicely with .docx. Neither of us is relying much on formatting beyond basics such as italics, bold, and bullet points.
Is there anything that actually meets our needs? Thanks!

pjl123 wrote:
James, reading that other post you commented on.. The one using the 'j...' word...
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/17/apple-apparently-censoring-the-word-jailbreak-in- us-itunes-sto/
Not a big deal, but when I saw this, I wondered if it hit the forums as well as the store.
I see they have since removed the entire thread from the forum...
Could be. I ran across several stories in my Pulse feed about it, including one that reported they were backing it out. I'm wondering if it was the result of a badly written SQL script that hit more tables than they wanted? Either way, pretty bizarre.

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hey guys, i'm looking at moving over to the Mac in a couple days and i just need to know the best free Word Processor that can open .doc files. 99% of my docs made in Word are of the 97-2003 variety and not 2007's .docx.
appreciate any help.
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Well, in terms of best, it might be argued the best would be MS Word for Mac (MS Office for Mac 2011) as it uses the same native format as the window's version of office.
Others that are compatible include Apple's own Pages - http://www.apple.com/apps/pages/
Then there are the free offerings, like openoffice - http://www.openoffice.org/ and others.
I do not honestly know if there is one single "best" as there are so many possible specific features and formating oddities in MS Word that it is impossible to say that any one otherwise generally MS-Word-compatible program is guaranteed to be 100% compatible with your specific documents.

How do I change the default word processor that Firefox opens my downloads in?

I deleted the one that I originally set (Works Word Processor), and can not open any documents until I change this setting to Microsoft Word. I get an error message saying "[file name] could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences." Okay, but how?

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[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+file+types]

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As the title says, I'm looking for an app that can word process on the iPad. This app must be able to save locally and save to an online service such as Dropbox or iCloud. Sometimes I do not have access to wifi, which is why I need to be able to save files locally. Thanks!

You can try Quickoffice Pro.
To save locally: Quickoffice
To saved to cloud: Box.net, Sugarsync, Dropbox and Google Documents
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee374/Diavonex/65904a28.jpg

Does anyone have a suggestion for a word processor that works on iPad and iMac now that pages is worthless?

I'd prefer it to be cheaper than microsoft office, but I'm willing to pay for something with such revolutionary features as a format bar and a spellchecker that will learn proper nouns?

Pages 4.3 should still be in an iWorks folder within your Applications folder.
That should still work as before if you didn't update the iPad app. Even if you did- better to have a workable option on ONE platform, right? And you can export from Pages 5 as a 4.3 doc, so there's still some interoperability there.
Please remember to tell Apple what we need from them at:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html

What word processor also corrects grammar? I purchased Pages only to find out that it doesn't!

Can someone recommend a word processor that corrects grammar as well as spelling? Pages was recommended to me in my local Apple store but it doesn't help with grammar. Note: Don't believe everything you are told!

Microsoft Word does a grammar check, and this site has a list of free grammar checkers: http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictionary-articles/free-online-grammar.html. But do be aware that grammar corrections are nuanced things, not so easy for any computer to correctly point out as compared to spelling. I offer this quote on the topic of computerized grammar checkers:
"...for the most part, accepting the advice of a computer grammar checker on your prose will make it much worse, sometimes hilariously incoherent."--Geoffrey K. Pullum, linguist.
The best grammar checker is always a real person who is fluent in the language reading over what you've written.

HT202879 Other Word Processors than Pages? & why do we have to pay for an upgrade that is incomplete?

I am very unhappy.
In order to access my documents from iCloud I have to upgrade to Mavericks (free, alright) and the new Pages, for which I have to pay.
The new Pages (and Numbers etc) does not have the same functionality as the one I have been using - yet I have to pay for it. Alright, Apple promises to upgrade in the next six months and add the new functionality. This is not good enough.
This was a very unpleasant surprise today - when I went to my document that I have been working on on my iPhone and my Mac at various times during the day and the Mac one had changed to 'Untitled 47' and the version on my iPhone would not open on my Mac unless I upgraded to the new Pages - $19.99 - and to OSX Mavericks - free - but I don't want to upgrade yet. And I don't want to pay for a new version of Pages that clearly does not have the same functionality(according to the user comments and the apple page that this discussion is about).
I have praised Apple to high heaven for the functionality of iCloud. But this really really annoys me.
If there's anything I hate its a company I am relying on forcing me to upgrade before they've sorted out the bugs.
I am definitely considering changing to a different company's word processor - if only they had a word processor that I could use on my Mac and iOS devices.
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Thanks Tom! Following your advice I posted a (shorter) version at feedback.
And thanks for those hints. Yes I've been looking at those ones.
IA Writer and Byword both can use the iCloud.
Writeroom only syncs using Dropbox.
Of course they're very minimal apps compared to Pages, or Word.
I feel very depressed.
Perhaps I will have to use one of these and then import into Word for final editing.
Believe it or not, for a minute I thought MS Word might be a contender for iOS syncing - because there is this thing called Office 365. But look at the reviews.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/office-mobile-for-office-365/id541164041
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transferred perfectly, except my documents. My documents on the new unit
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Note that TextWrangler is not a word processor... it is a text editor. That may not sound like a significant difference, but a text editor like TextWrangler includes no functions for styling text (not even basic underline, italics and bold), no functions for laying out the page, no way to insert multimedia such as pictures, etc. Text editors serve a very different function - typically, editing code. And this also means that TextWrangler won't open your AppleWorks documents in the way you want... oh, it'll open them, but you probably aren't interested in seeing the raw contents of the file interpreted as plain text!
If paying for a word processor is what you're getting hung up on, try something like [NeoOffice|http://www.neooffice.org>. It's not as good as iWork, in my opinion, but it'll do the job.

Need a decent word processor

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There are so many things that infuriate me about Pages. Save As.. missing, autosave, etc which are NOT like 99% of other apps on the Mac.
Specifially (today):
I have a letter in Pages. It’s a standard business letter you have see 1m times.
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Grrrrrr.
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William Donelson wrote:
There are so many things that infuriate me about Pages. Save As.. missing, autosave, etc which are NOT like 99% of other apps on the Mac.
Save As is still there, hold down the option key as you go to the File menu. This is not Pages, it is Mountain Lion.
Specifially (today):
I have a letter in Pages. It’s a standard business letter you have see 1m times.
After the first line of the address, at the top of the letter, I insert a carriage return and BINGO, the tabs in the middle of the letter are suddenly all messed up.
Grrrrrr.
Then you are doing something wrong, probably pounding away at spaces, tabs and returns to position things. Turn on invisibles to see what is going on:
Menu > View > Show Invisibles
If you have strings of tabs, spaces and returns that is the problem.
Is there a way to make lines independent in Pages?
Yes, hit the return key. Like every other Word Processing program.
I have this crazy belief that letters are not Web Pages, not HTML, and that an extra line somewhere should not reformat following lines way down the page.
Alternately, is there some 3rd party word processor that works like the old Apple Works, with graphics and tables you can recommend?
Time to learn Pages. AppleWorks is dead. Stop pining for it. This is a case of user error and instead of blaming Pages, it would pay to find out what you have done and stop doing that.
Pages, except for the fancy DTP features, tables and charts works like most other Word Processing apps. Just a case of learning new tricks. My guess is you have other stuff going on.

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Hi guys.
I have done extensive searches on this topic, but still have some unanswered questions.
First of all, my 1gig black macbook will be arriving some time next week (fingers crossed). I can't wait. As so many people with the intel chips, I now have to chose a proper word processor that will meet my needs. Needless to say, I can't wait until Office 2007 is released!
Essentially I need to be able to receive word documents and powerpoint presentations from windows machines. I would like to be able to open them and edit them as I please. Also, I need to be able to send them back, open them on a windows machine and print them.
I am a university student, so I only use word for papers that can occasionally include digital photos, or just pictures from the internet.
I use powerpoint to look at lecture notes from my professor and need to able to take notes on them i.e. add my own info to the slides.
I can live without Excel for now. I have seen the recent beta of NeoOffice, that looks like a very good solution. Can I send/receive documents to/from windows machines? My only problem with this solution is that it seems to require close to 400mb. That seems large to me and I would think the program might not be as snappy as I want it to be. Any thoughts?
I could instal MS Office for macs, but since it doesn't run natively, I am hesitating. What about a program like Papyrus? I have downloaded a trial version and it runs extremely fast. I was not able to find a powerpoint equivalent on there. Is there one?
Also, what about iWork? I saw that pages is is mainly for publishing and using fancy templates...Is that program more than I need? Keynote of course looks great.
Any comments are much-appreciated.

Appleworks has always worked for me since leaving microshaft! I use notta for MS stuff on my computer and in my home. I just went to the recent Pages and like it a lot - appleworks works on my MBP on intel and is quite fast but I am also going to switch over 100% to pages! I am actually in transition. neooffice loads very slow but it it nice. I tried and used to use it but i remember reading that there was support or development issues going on re: not happening or else the actual freeoffice ro whatever the parent app is does not support anythging with neooffice anymore so i stopped using it. I found some stsuff slow in neoooffcie due to it being run in Java.
If it was to be developed and ssupported more I would probably try using it. be careful of the various builds re: your OS too. i was using a panther build before and that was my introduction.
I am happy generally with pages. I need something that is as stable as I can get for business stuff.
Neooffice is somethin if it does take off again that I would consider. but slow load and sosmetimes i type and there is a lag before the characters emerge on the page.

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So I have had a frustrating time trying to add rows to a table in a word processing document on Google Docs. Are there any word processors that support this? Quickoffice and Documents to Go do not as of this writing. (May 26th, 2011.) at least not that I can determine.
Does Office2HD support this feature? Do any of the word processors?
My current thoughts/what Apple needs to do/
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I'm looking for a Chinese language word processor for
OSX that will allow me to create mail messages, Word
docs, etc. Any suggestions?
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Tiger came with Appleworks. As far as I can tell, the only word processor that came with my new Mac is TextEdit. Was I gipped? Was something not installed on my computer that should have been? Or do I just have to buy Iwork?

Whilst not a high end word processor, TextEdit has more abilities than many people realize, or have spent time exploring.
It really has some great features.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2523
The following links are a bit old but I think they show off some of its finer points.
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