Hello, There are several options that work well. Like anything, it is primarily based on your individual need and the degree to which you want to merely just process text, or manipulate your text. Thus, a great program that will help accomplish the former, is ByWord. This is an excellent way to just get thoughts out. Also there is a WordPress plugin, which is very useful when submitting blog posts. Scrivener is another great word processing program. This is for the heavy writer. This allows one to compile a series of documents and additional files together in one area to help with organization when composing manuscripts. This is not free, but well-worth the cost for the features it does provide. Moreover, a default program that is already installed with each OS on the Mac is Text Edit. This is not one I use regularly, but it does help accomplish mere word processing. Needless-to-say, these are options I utilize. Hope this has been helpful************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx