Buy Office or iWork

[u1725]

Hi!
I have to get Office or iWork(i can get iwork very cheap), which should i choose, and what is the pros and cons for each of them?

u1725

 

[wordmunger]

http://guides.macrumors.com/Comparison_of_iWork_and_Microsoft_Office

 

[72930]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=office+or+iwork+site:forums.macrumors.com&btnG=Search

 

[dukebound85]

office esp if you work with windows people

 

[u1725]

Which?

Which one would you guys pick(i can get iwork cheap)?

 

[u1725]

Use

I mostly use it for writing and layout stuff, and i never send any of my files to anyone, so it is only a question of, which is the best and esiest(i dont use advansed features)

 

[dukebound85]

then either would work for that purpose. just get one, everyone is biased. i prefer office and others prefer iwork

not a big deal for your needs

 

[wordmunger]

iWork is cheaper and probably easier to use too. Sounds like an easy call.

 

[Island Dog]

I prefer iWork, but both have free trials so just download each and try for yourself.

 

[u1725]

I Think I Will Choose...

After trying both trials, i think that iWork is the one for me.
(Might buy it tomorrow)

 

[*Apple*]

My recommendation

I have purchased both, but I would recommend you to buy iwork, it's just easier(and funnier) to use than office.

Just my advice

 

[IJ Reilly]

http://guides.macrumors.com/Comparison_of_iWork_and_Microsoft_Office

Good luck with that. I've been linking these threads to the guide, but it seems little can be done to stop them popping up on an almost daily basis.

 

[Sharewaredemon]

the only major beef i have with iwork is a lack of autosave.

otherwise I prefer it to word for standard text editing.

It's really nice that it uses the OS's dictionary, so words you've added to the dictionary in any other apps will be recognised there.

 

[jive turkey]

IMO, Keynote is fantastic, Pages is good, but Numbers is horrible if you have to make more than a basic spreadsheet. So I iWork, but also Excel as a stand-alone app.

 

[Galley]

iWork '08 is much easier to use than Office.

 

[cycocelica]

Good luck with that. I've been linking these threads to the guide, but it seems little can be done to stop them popping up on an almost daily basis.

I was waiting for your post with all the links.

 

[IJ Reilly]

I was waiting for your post with all the links.

The guide page was created instead. It's much more useful than a bunch of links, but neither seems to stop the proliferation of repetitious threads.

 

[Scooterman1]

Try OpenOffice

Try OpenOffice. It's great and it's FREE. I have MSOffice 2007 and the new Beta of OpenOffice 3.0 IMO works just as good.

Version 2.4.0 http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US

Beta 3.0 http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/

 

[NAG]

Ew, even 2008 is better than Open Office (even in terms of UI design).

 

[wordmunger]

Good luck with that. I've been linking these threads to the guide, but it seems little can be done to stop them popping up on an almost daily basis.

Everyone's situation is slightly different, so I can understand the desire to get a little personalized help, but I do think that pointing out the guides does some good -- at least it gets the basic facts out on the table.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Everyone's situation is slightly different, so I can understand the desire to get a little personalized help, but I do think that pointing out the guides does some good -- at least it gets the basic facts out on the table.

If they read it, which from the questions, I presume most do not.

 

[pbbaker123]

I use iWork for everything except Macro based spreadsheets which I use excel for.

 

[SSpiro]

Office blows..

OpenOffice or NeoOffice.

 

[Scooterman1]

OpenOffice 3.0 Beta

Really, OpenOffice 3.0 Beta looks VERY good. I never actually adjusted to the Ribbon UI in MS Office 2007. I like the UI in the OpenOffice 3.0 Beta much better. And they have versions for MAC OS. For those that haven't tried it, you should. From what I have been reading, and hearing from people working for businesses, a lot of the businesses are switching to this new Open Source Suite. From a price standpoint, it would be hard not to since the new 3.0 is supporting the new file formats of MS Office. If I can just find a good replacement for MS Outlook. Anyway, my next computer will most likely be a iMac since I got looking at them after buying a couple of iPhones.