Occasionally, you will experience formatting or printing issues when using documents that have been made in Microsoft Office. Java can make it unresponsive sometimes There are some drawbacks to OpenOffice for Mac of course. The six components OpenOffice for Mac comes with are Write, Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw, Base (database management) and Formula (mathematical application). It may not be quite as polished as Microsoft Office but considering you get all this for nothing, you really can't complain. OpenOffice for Mac includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.

Features all essential Office tools OpenOffice for Mac is a multi-platform and multilingual office suite that is compatible with all other major office suites (meaning it will open and edit Word, Powerpoint documents etc) and best of all, its absolutely free to use.

You can download the latest version for Intel Mac here. This version is for older PPC Macs that are running OS X 10.3 or higher. OpenOffice for Mac is a free powerful office suite that provides a good replacement for Microsoft Office for Mac.