Click the Download the Desktop Apps button, and your Microsoft account page will open in a new tab. You won’t find incredibly advanced features like those on the full-blown Microsoft Word, but for most people it’s all they’ll ever need. After your subscription is confirmed, click the Continue button. Google Docs is a perennial favourite as the web-based software is free and easy to use. Any new Mac will come with a free copy of Apple’s Pages software, which is a hugely powerful tool for creating and editing documents, and also works well with its iOS/iPadOS counterpart app. Unless you specifically need Microsoft Word, you’ll find that there are plenty of great word processors out there that won’t cost you a penny. Our advice would be to keep well away from these ‘free’ routes to Word. I no longer second-guess my writing since I can be sure that what I send to friends, coworkers. That’s aside from the fact that you’re contravening copyright, which is rather naughty. Grammarly has given me confidence in my communication. Downloading and installing things like this on your Mac is one of the easiest ways to contract malware or spyware software that can cause havoc with your data. It’s true that some hackers are benevolent, wanting only to free the information so that anyone can use it, but sadly others are most definitely not.
