Harry,
I do not know if this is of any help but you could try some alternatives:
Word processing (Win/Mac/Linux):
https://www.freeoffice.com/en/download/applications and if the free
version works for you, there is a paid version with more options at
https://www.softmaker.com/en/products
Password management: https://keepass.info/
I have used it for years. It is really good.
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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> Sorry for the off-topic, but I'm being driven to despair by the constant
> requests for user name (or "apple ID") and passwords just to run my own
> programs, both in Win and OSX Monterey. I can't even save a file in Word
> 365 without giving a password. (I use Dashlane, but it almost never
> works and is extremely awkward.)
>
> So is there some way, in Windows and/or OSX, to turn off the whole
> internal password scheme? I mean to go back to the way things were
> before they introduced users\[your username]\ where there is no issue of
> getting told this or that program doesn't have permission to do that
> (write to the cloud or save to the root directory, for example).
>
> Thanks in advance.