If you are looking for an alternative to creating a variety of documents on your Mac, you might want to consider the free, open source alternative NeoOffice.
NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
You can find an excellent description of NeoOffice and the NeoOffice project on their wiki.
The NeoOffice home page with links to the download and updates can be found at the link below.