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iwork 09' or office 08'?
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If you need a Spreadsheet program, you should definitely go with Office. Excel is at least 20x better and more powerful than numbers. Keynote is much better than PowerPoint. And Word is slightly better for compatibility with Word documents. However, Pages is much better to use for writing/typing. It's really a toss up. If dealing in the business world, you need Office (in my opinion); I have seen way too many formatting/conversion errors when trying to make Pages view docs or Pages save as Word docs.
well if you export as pdf's from any program it doesn't mess anything up.
ya i know you can't edit them but if you just have to give someone something it works well.
I've been using Office in Win for more than 10 years.
One year and a half a go I switched to mac. Office for mac is crap compared to Win one. I still need to use Excel for win (Office 2007 does not support VBA macros), so I use it under Parallels.
iWork in much more stable than Office. Keynote is way better than PP, Pages and Word are equal for me. Numbers is almost zero compared to Excel.
have also a look to neoOffice (fee, quite complete, I prefer it over OpenOffice).
One year and a half a go I switched to mac. Office for mac is crap compared to Win one. I still need to use Excel for win (Office 2007 does not support VBA macros), so I use it under Parallels.
iWork in much more stable than Office. Keynote is way better than PP, Pages and Word are equal for me. Numbers is almost zero compared to Excel.
have also a look to neoOffice (fee, quite complete, I prefer it over OpenOffice).
I use word rather than pages since i am used to the interface, and i find it quite stable (haven't lost any work as of yet). I admit it isn't as good as word on Windows (lack of equation input, toolbox system is slow to use), but running parallels just for word processing is more hassle than it is worth.
Excel for sure, and i haven't used Powerpoint much, although Keynote has some interesting templates.
Excel for sure, and i haven't used Powerpoint much, although Keynote has some interesting templates.
If working with text and you just need to print it, or edit it on Mac OS X (But you don't need to edit it on Windows), Pages is really nice. Numbers is useless for me.. Keynote is really nice, but it's terrible to open and display a .ppt Keynote-made-presentation in Windows.
So imho, if working on Macs, go for iWork '09, if working on both platforms, get Office.
So imho, if working on Macs, go for iWork '09, if working on both platforms, get Office.
I like office but how can they be so different across the os's? 
O i forgot to say, Excel is ridiculously crippled in officemac 08' There is no VBA in office 08. Just read the reviews on apple.com. So if you want to do any statistical functions your out of luck. I still think people with office 08 should get a cut rate on the next version.