Word/Excel and PowerPoint for Mac - how do I get them?!

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Just bought myself a MacPro, which I love. I'm shortly about to go freelance, so will use this for work as well as Mumsnet.

I'm more than happy to use Keynote for presentations (much prefer this to PowerPoint anyway), but I'm less familiar with Pages and Numbers, and would rather have Word and Excel. And I'm going to have to have PowerPoint as most/all of my future clients will want their presentations converted from Keynote into PowerPoint.

But where do I get these apps from?! I've gone to the App Store and can't seem to find them. I searched for Microsoft Office, and the nearest thing that came up was iGo Office, which seems to be templates for documents - is this the same thing?

I do have access to these apps on my old laptop, which is running Windows 10, so I could use that if I had to - but it's much clunkier and heavier than my lovely, shiny new Mac, and I really wouldn't want to have to carry it around, so would like the flexibility of having those apps on my Mac.

TIA.

Hi, enjoy your shiny new toy! I bought them as a software bundle from the Apple store when I got my Mac book...

Just go to the Microsoft site and choose to buy the office for Mac . Very easy

You need a subscription to Office 365. That will allow you to download the apps to your Mac, or use the online versions (the online versions are free if you want to try them out first).

The Mac versions are not exactly the same as the Windows ones, in terms of look and feel or functionality, although they're very similar.

Thanks all.

Don't spend any money try LibreOffice for Mac

www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?type=mac-x86_64&version=6.1.0&lang=en-GB

I use a macbookpro, am part freelance. You could use something called 'parallels' which makes half of your mac windows. Dont forget apple are really helpful and you can go back to them and they will install it and set it up for you. I actually use gdrive for everything I need and I can create pp presentations there.

I use office 365 all for the Mac, all work great although some functions eg embedding video in to ppt work differently. I think it costs me about £5 per month

Well it turns out, thanks to a recent email from Microsoft, that I can now extend my subscription to add the app to my Mac for free, so that's a result