The first steps on my first Mac i did with Word 5.1, but I became addicted to RagTime, soon. Ten years ago I made two page layouts on a PB180 using RagTime. I have purchased RagTime 6 last year for my office work, but the old version 3.2 is still available, nowadays without a license fee at

http://www.ragtime-consult.ch/download.html

I found a version localised for Switzerland there. At least French and German localised versions exist, probably English and Dutch as well. Digging into the the ressources is fun with this application, as opposite to Word 5.1, which is a hell of non-Mac like programming. It might make a nice evening with ResEdit to produce other localised copies.