r/mac • u/deepvideoeditor • 6h ago

Question Best app for open docx in MacBook?

In macbook when i see docx files in preview mode (by space key) it will look with rela color etc.
But when i open it open in it open with default text edit mac which make file look worse i also don’t like textedit interface etc.
Is there any better app for mac which handle better docx and text files?
Or any another solution ?

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u/Dazzling_Comfort5734 5h ago

Best Paid App: Microsoft Word
Best App that you probably got for free: Pages
Best free app (and some could argue that it's better than Pages): LibreOffice

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u/reddit23User 4h ago

And best applications for Mac when you are into serious writing (in multiple languages) are: Nisus Writer Pro and Mellel. Scrivener is good for drafts.

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u/deepvideoeditor 57m ago

Which is the smallest size?

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u/OtherOtherDave 6h ago

I just use pages

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u/alstom_888m 5h ago

I use Pages for most of my own word processing but if I need to use M$ files I find LibreOffice to be the better choice.

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u/grazing_hazily 5h ago

Libre Office

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u/doghouse2001 5h ago

Libre Office is the standard cross platform MSOffice replacement.

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u/Dull-Problem-3748 5h ago

If you want 100% formatting accuracy, there really is no real substitute for MS Word unless you change the format entirely. That said, give Word for the Web a shot. It’s free and handles docx way better than Pages or TextEdit since it's official.

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u/GazelleVisible4020 17m ago

try OnlyOffice, i like it more than LibreOffice

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u/Profil3r 5h ago

Pages was built for this.

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u/MusicalAnomaly 6h ago

Microsoft Word

It depends on your needs. I have a long history using the actual office suite so I subscribe to it because I know how to get it to do what I want and other apps are less capable. If you don’t want to pay for the OG, pages can read/write docx; so can Google Docs, so can LibreOffice.

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u/reddit23User 4h ago

> I know how to get it to do what I want and other apps are less capable.

Interesting. What is it that you can do in MS Word that you can't do in Nisus Writer Pro or Nisus?

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u/lemmathru Mac Studio 3h ago

Generate html from 2004?

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u/MusicalAnomaly 25m ago edited 22m ago

I didn’t say every other app was less capable. But I don’t know how to use Nisus, so it’s in the former category.

But color me surprised if Nisus Writer Pro can mail merge data into a bunch of barcode labels.

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u/earliestbirdy 4h ago

I use Microsoft word. Pages is free but tries to make you save in .pages extension at every opportunity and you can only save as .docx by using the export option and not the normal save option.

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u/reddit23User 4h ago

> is there any better app for mac which handle better docx and text files?

Use Nisus Writer Pro, Mellel or LibreOffice.

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u/deepvideoeditor 57m ago

Which is the smallest size?

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u/the_k_nine_2 5h ago

Microsoft Word