And, no need to feed the Microsoft treasury for MS Office programs. Try OpenOffice (
www.openoffice.org). It's as good as MS Office in most ways, superior in some areas, reads and write MS file formats and it's FREE (this is an open source programming project). The current MAC version is for OSX and runs in X11 (a UNIX windowing system). There is a native version in the works, no ETA.
Anyway, give it a try, it won't cost you a cent...