
Also lost are highlighting, tables, text lists and advanced paragraph formatting. Please note that due to the limitations of the file format converter, images are lost when opening a native Word 2007 format file in Bean and when saving a rich text document as a Word 2007 format file in Bean.

(not a free solution but your mac may have iWorks.) iWorks will open these files, I believe.

In addition to the above listed options (OpenOffice is great, BTW):
