Any good Mac word processing software out there?

[RonaldMacDonald]

I do not like word but need something for Mac that is easy to use and has a few bells and whistles but not too much junk either. I need a word processing software which can handle both English and Japanese on the same line. Japanese is double-byte characters.

 

[DeltaMac]

I found this page - http://redcocoon.org/cab/j4macwriting.html
This covers several different possibilities.

 

[#1 Rhapsody]

You can try Bean. I don't know whether or not it supports Japanese but it is pretty nice.

 

[bbloke]

While I've not actually tried it out for myself, I hear a lot of good things about Mellel. It provides multilingual support, including Japanese.

 

[Randy Singer]

There is a comprehensive list of all of the available word processors for the Macintosh here:
http://www.emailman.com/software/wordproc/mac.html

 

[Travis86]

And, of course, there's Pages (part of iWork, $79). It's made by Apple, and can handle both English and Japanese. (I just tried it.) I have been very satisfied with Pages. It's just like what you said, "a few bells and whistles, but not too much junk, either."

 

[michaelsanford]

The OpenOffice suite is the most powerful open-source and free office suite you can find, www.openoffice.org

I use that in conjunction with Microsoft Office 2008, mostly the latter. Microsoft might not make a good operating system, but their office suite and keyboards are great.