iWork the Apple office suite includes the word processor Pages. This office suite is included as a trial version in all of the new Mac systems. I encourage you to support Apple with this product. It’s superior to Microsoft Office in many ways.
However, Office and Word are still the heavy weight champions of office suites. Operating with them is essential for any program that hopes to compete. Luckily it is easy to save Pages documents as Word files as the following video shows.
As you can see, saving files in Word format is a simple matter of using Pages export feature. This is especially useful if your children need to move files back and forth between home and school.