Can I ask you a question about which Apple product to buy my wife?
I am DONE with Microsoft with their built in crap ware and virues. Besides our smart phones, the only computer we have is a 4 year old Chrome Book. That thing is a cockroach. I love it. It never gets a virus and for $250.00 it still works fine.
But my wife wants MS Word. I’ve tried to get her to interface with Google Docs but no.
So now I see iPpads with MS Word? Any Apple laptops with Word? One having a keyboard and ability to print is essential.
Thanks in advance.
I tell you that I had a frustrating time using Microsoft Word on a Windows PC last week. One of the most common things an office needs to do is generate mailing labels. Microsoft seems to have broken this function. The labels get generated from a list and from within the label part of Word one can print a single label or a page of all the same label, but Word would NOT print all of the labels from the print routine that would print those single and all one label as it used to. That has been removed. Now you have to leave the label print routine and go to the normal print command and AGAIN select you want to print labels and proceed to print. . . but it prints them on only ⅞ths of the page and none of them fit the labels you've selected to my clients HP business grade laser printer. NOTHING I tried would permit these labels to print. Not a damn thing.
I exported the file and took it home and imported it into the Microsoft Word for Mac, latest version, and it had the same exact problem. It printed to my professional grade Brother laser printer in the exact same ⅞ths page format.
So, I imported the file into Apple's answer to Word, a word processor called Pages, which accepts Word format, and found that not only could I edit the file to my heart's content, I could micro-adjust the print output to make it perfectly fit the labels! . . in all directions! Nowhere in the Microsoft Word program was that allowed.
Pages, Numbers (Apple's version of Excel), and Keynote (Apple's version of PowerPoint) come free with every new Mac purchased. If your wife doesn't need the more esoteric capabilities of MS word, she may not have to shell out the expense to buy it for the Mac. There is a version on the iPad, but MS wants to rent the use of it on its MS 365 program, where you pay an annual fee. One of the advantages of the Apple solutions is they are shared across all devices. Editing on one, and the changes appear instantly on all others you own.
You can print from an iPad, and the iPad Pro keyboard is about $149 to $169 depending on whether you buy third party or Apple. . . but I would look at the iMac or Mac mini. . . and look at the Apple refurb store. Refurbs are often brand new but just computers or iPads that were ordered on a large order that did not get fulfilled. . . and put back into inventory. They have the same warranty as a "new" one. You just get a substantial discount and you don't get the "new" Apple box.
They all still get the same free software.
“So now I see iPpads with MS Word? Any Apple laptops with Word? One having a keyboard and ability to print is essential.”
I have purchased the annual MS office suite license. I pay a relatively small annual fee that gives me the latest versions of Word, Excel, etc. on FIVE devices. I use an iPad and a MacBook as two of those five. I use a wireless printer (cheap these days). A Bluetooth keyboard for an iPad is also super cheap. So, yes, it’s easy to do. And if I get a new device I can remove the license from that and add the new device via my account on the MS website.