I've finally gone and done it. After endless aggrevation, I have removed Microsoft Word X from my digital toolbox. And while I still occasionally use Excel, I have moved almost excusively to AppleWorks 6.2.4 as my daily productivity tool.

Why? Well, it reads and writes to Word and Excel file formats. It's not intrusive. And it doesn't crash with the dramatic regularity that Word does on OS X.

Also, it came bundled on my Macs.

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