Have you checked to see if your university has a deal with MS? There are a lot of schools out there that have deal where you can get Office for just a couple of bucks, at least they do here in the States.jhomayne said:soo.. anyone wanna lend me £100?
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Appleworks vs. Office
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I agree that you should, if you can afford it, get MS Office. And don't rip it off. Dude, that's just wrong. The student price is a phenomenal deal for what you get. Regardless of what you think of MS, the Mac division is staffed with some pretty cool people. And they've made Office 2004 a great product.
It will work with the 95% of the world running it on a PC. It'll do anything you need it to do. The new features in Word are great if you're note-taking on a PB.
I'm a Mac person, through and through. But I appreciate a good product at a good value, and MS Office is just that. If you get something else, that one time where it needs to be in Word format (or whatever) and your open-source app doesn't quite work, and you're late with your project... that £100 would seem like a bargain.
As to those who say that Appleworks would be praised if Apple'd just update the GUI:
They aren't going to. They haven't really worked on it for years. They don't need to. Newbies/non-demanding users are fine with it. Demanding users use Office. If Apple came out with a kick-ass version of Appleworks, demanding users would still use Office.
But... agreed, it does the job if you don't need to work with others. If you're just writing your own papers, you'll be fine with Appleworks. You don't need the power of Office. But you'll likely need it to collaborate with others.
It will work with the 95% of the world running it on a PC. It'll do anything you need it to do. The new features in Word are great if you're note-taking on a PB.
I'm a Mac person, through and through. But I appreciate a good product at a good value, and MS Office is just that. If you get something else, that one time where it needs to be in Word format (or whatever) and your open-source app doesn't quite work, and you're late with your project... that £100 would seem like a bargain.
As to those who say that Appleworks would be praised if Apple'd just update the GUI:
They aren't going to. They haven't really worked on it for years. They don't need to. Newbies/non-demanding users are fine with it. Demanding users use Office. If Apple came out with a kick-ass version of Appleworks, demanding users would still use Office.
But... agreed, it does the job if you don't need to work with others. If you're just writing your own papers, you'll be fine with Appleworks. You don't need the power of Office. But you'll likely need it to collaborate with others.
yeah that's what i'm hoping.kanker said:
i think i'm gonna leave office off my order and see how it works out.
it's cheaper on amazon anyways..
EDIT: yeah. i wouldn't think off ripping it off. In my experience, ripping off always leads to problems down the line, whether they be technical or legal
It depends on your needs as to whether Appleworks is a better choice than Office. For no nonsense word processing, Appleworks is great. Simple, easy to use, no auto-formatting crap. Word is almost a desktop publishing app, and if you need all that stuff, then go for it. Appleworks has one unique feature which is unmatched for academic writing and that is the ability to create footnotes or endnotes in Chicago Manual of Style or MLA automatically. Type in author, title, publisher etc and it formats the entry for you. That one feature keeps me a dedicated Appleworks fan.
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