Hi Shel, I might not be able to help with #1/2 but here’s a possible answer for the last part: Have you given libreoffice a try yet? It’s a breakoff of openoffice back when oracle picked up the parent company. The original developers of open office split, formed libreoffice and continued developing it. It’s functionalities are usually way ahead of open office, and the interface is pretty much the same. Best part is they have an OSX installer. Don’t know if they are in the appstore though. Might be what you’re looking for. Tony From: Shel Horowitz<mailto:shel at principledprofit.com> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 17:37 To: Hidden-Tech Tech<mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Word/Office clones that do Japanese well I just helped my stepfather, who is Japanese and a literary novelist, to buy a new MacBookAir. He is replacing a 2004 Mac running OS 10.4. We are having some issues getting the new machine to 1. type in Japanese (yes, we know about the Languages selection tool, and yes, we tried a font that we believe is Japanese) 2. type vertically (from top to bottom, starting on the right) *while orienting the letters correctly.* We found the vertical text option, but it turns the letters sideways, which isn't going to work. Also, I want him to get something like OpenOffice or NeoOffice so he can test it out and maybe not have to buy Word--or at least a test version of Word--so he can make sure it works before his two-week grace period is up. I can't find a version of Open Office in the App Store, and the version from their website won't run because it was not from the App Store. NeoOffice is in the App Store but it costs money, and I don't want to buy it if he's going to end up buying Word anyway. However, it is a lot cheaper and my guess is it might be simpler for him to get used to. He is 86, not at all tech-savvy, and using Word 2004, which has a much simpler interface. All suggestions very much welcome. Thanks, Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm) ________________________________________________ Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change Twitter: @shelhorowitz * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame http://goingbeyondsustainability.com<http://goingbeyondsustainability.com/> http://transformpreneur.com<http://transformpreneur.com/> mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com<mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com> * 413-586-2388<tel:413-586-2388> Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) _________________________________________________ ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20161008/7f70752a/attachment.html