

To check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then click General.

If you are using Safari, the downloaded file is saved to the desktop or your Downloads folder unless you specified a different location in the Preferences dialog box of Safari. Follow the instructions on the screen to save the file to your hard disk.Click Download, or click the link for the language version that you want.Make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements.Quit any applications that are running, including all Office applications, Microsoft Messenger, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere with the installation.Print this page if you want to use it as a reference when you are offline.

The open-source LibreOffice suite can work with Office files, as can Google’s Docs and Sheets applications, which are free online with a Google account. Apple has built a level of compatibility with Microsoft Office files into Pages and Numbers, the corresponding word-processing and spreadsheet programs from its own iWork suite for Mac OS X a browser-based version is free on the iWork for iCloud beta site online. While you may have to fiddle a bit and remember to save files in Office formats, several other programs allow you to open, edit and save Word and Excel files too.
