iWork 08 better than Microsoft Office?

[djellison]

Presentations:
Keynote outstrips PPT'07 1000:1 for quality of presentation. Just stunning

DTP / WP:
To be honest, about equals of one another, word or pages, doesn't make much difference

Spreadsheets:
For large sheets of data with complex graphs - Numbers simply isn't an option. For smaller sheets made pretty - Numbers wins.

Doug

 

[xUKHCx]

Keynote is better than powerpoint.

Apart from that Office beats iWork. Especially when you need to interlink documents i.e. embed or link an excel spreadsheet/graph into Word. This alone blows iWork out of the water in any technical user standpoint.

 

[72930]

Keynote is better than powerpoint.

Apart from that Office beats iWork. Especially when you need to interlink documents i.e. embed or link an excel spreadsheet/graph into Word. This alone blows iWork out of the water in any technical user standpoint.

As a student, I much prefer Pages for taking notes, and even Numbers for charts. They're so much simpler and faster to open than the MS equivalents, and they make much more beautiful finished products...

 

[xUKHCx]

As a student, I much prefer Pages for taking notes, and even Numbers for charts. They're so much simpler and faster to open than the MS equivalents, and they make much more beautiful finished products...

As a student too, there is no contest. Can you edit an numbers spreadsheet (which you called irritating) and then when you open the pages document that is linked to that it updates itself. I think not.

How can they be simpler to open cmd+down is still cmd+down no matter what application, also with Office 2008 the speed issue is no longer there.

In terms of beauty for the reports I write it is about clear presentation of results. Beauty doesn't really come into it and you can pretty easily make a good looking Word document as you can Pages. Numbers is all too glossy and lacking features to be useful.

 

[Luis]

Neither is better. The only exception maybe is Keynote, which beats the crap out of PowerPoint.

Other than that, I use Pages mostly for note taking or quick assignments, but for formal projects, then Word is the way to go. Numbers, while easy to use, is not a replacement to Excel, one is for quick graphs and things, and the other for more advanced work.

They have a different focus on how they work.

 

[Sesshi]

Office 2007 FTW (except when it screws up my mammoth 2003 spreadsheets when saving out as 2003).

 

[chameleon81]

Neither is better. The only exception maybe is Keynote, which beats the crap out of PowerPoint.

Other than that, I use Pages mostly for note taking or quick assignments, but for formal projects, then Word is the way to go. Numbers, while easy to use, is not a replacement to Excel, one is for quick graphs and things, and the other for more advanced work.

They have a different focus on how they work.

I disagree . Keynote s transitions might look better. But it does not have SmartArt which office 2007 has. t really helps you create fast nice looking lists cycles pyramids etc.
And you can create really eye catching presentations with powerpoint if you play with design and format tabs. I

I think pages is not easier than word or word it self is not hard ,especially version 2007 made use of Office Word Excel and Powerpoint very simple for new users. ( old ones like me have to adapt but it is not very hard ) I like Office 2007, i had its ultimate version for 53 pounds ( if i m not wrong ) so for me it wasn t expensive at all. Just for office 2007 i can install XP on bootcamp . I like it so much as a suite although I can not use Groove because of the anti techno society in my uni

Outlook, I dont know it is more professional system then Apples mail I guess. But it cant find any emails if I search for them. It calender looks horrible. Contacts is better I think. But again it wont find an email sent by Kevin if you just type kev on the search box, which is - in my opinion - very unacceptable .

 

[Sesshi]

You didn't install the indexer. (Outlook) I believe it helpfully tells you if you're using XP. In Vista there was a bug with the indexer, which if you come up against it is easy enough to solve. I can type 'kev' if I wished to - although I'm not sure if I know any Kevins, strangely enough...