First, if all you are looking for is a plain text word processor, "TextEdit" is included with every Mac. It used to be called "SimpleText". These are the equivalent of NotePad and WordPad in Windows. Just text, limited, if any formatting.
Then, if you are looking for a full-blown word processor which allows for all the formatting, inclusion of graphics (but not a page layout program), you *could* buy Microsoft Office for Mac... or you could down load (free) the opensource application, NeoOffice. http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php If you use this, be sure to "Save As" RTF (readable by any text editor) or in whatever format (including .doc which is MS Word's format) or as a PDF. I am not aware that potential employers are asking for HTML - unless they want to see you coding skills - in which case you would not a word processor...
The key here is what format does the potential employer want? Some don't care - but others will specify.
10.3.9 if the version of mac I am running on an ibook I am really new to all this because my ex always did everything on the mac. I am looking for a free program that I can type out a resume, save it and send it as an attachment.
Do you ahve to send attachments as HTML or what?
any help is going to be very helpful...thanks so much

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