
Almost any of these books (titles vary), even one several years old, will be fine, since the basics haven't changed for many years. If you lack these basic Mac skills you are strongly encouraged to visit your local library and borrow one of the many Introduction/Switching to Mac books. To install OpenOffice, you'll need to know how to use Safari or another web browser. Some steps reference your Mac's → System Preferences dialog. It assumes that you have some basic Mac skills like working with your keyboard/mouse and, in particular, know how to use Finder. This tutorial covers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for using OpenOffice on Apple Macintosh systems including iMac and MacBook. The OpenOffice support for MacOS Catalina, MacOS Mojave, MacOS. Apache OpenOffice for Mac OS 2021 The Apache OpenOffice 2021 for Mac OS is free for all mac operating system. I am not sure if Mojave causes trouble or it is LO 6.1.2.1 to blame, need to perform some testing on different OS and LO versions. Both backup files are working fine on Mac OS X 10.13.6, LO 5.4.1.2. Apache OpenOffice is a free office-suite alternative to Microsoft Office or Apple's iWork Suite. Both open-source suites offer tools with the same names - Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), and Impress (slide presentations) - to compete with Microsoft's equivalent products - Word.

To help you decide, we compared key features of the 2016 version of Microsoft's productivity suite to Apache OpenOffice 4.1 and LibreOffice 5.1.
