Office vs iWork

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I prefer Office 08 over iWork 08. I frequently use it for labels and have not found this function in Pages. Also compatibility regarding fonts is a always a concern.

 

If you plan on sharing your documents with anyone you need to use office, it is the gold standard and if you try to convert them you will get conversion errors guaranteed.

 

hey mr m -

If you decide on Pages (iWork '08) then a file that you create can be exported into a word file to pass off to a colleague. Likewise, if you receive a word file, you can open it in Pages. It works well and it's an easy task.

Pages in iWork is an Apple suite that runs inherently on Apple platform. ms office is...well ms. The cost is reasonable for what you get and you can take it for a free 30 day test spin.

Hope this helps -GDF

 

I prefer Office since its what I'm used to and what is most commonly used

 

Office is better for compatibility. iWork for functionality and intigration.

 

What a wonderful thread idea, wish i would have thought about it, and well worth creating 100 of them instead of searching for them in the Mac/Apple Software area.

 

I have both iWork and Office 08. I prefer Numbers for my spreadsheets and Keynote but I need Word over Pages. I use Pages to create documents but sometimes when I download a Word document from the web it's not always compatible with Pages. iWork definitely cost less and it's a good suite of apps but you could never go wrong with MS Office. A word of warning it's slow at launching apps, MS promised it would be fast on Intel Macs but it's not at all.

Yeah, the moderator may move this thread to the software section but this is a good thread.

 

I use both, Word 08 to type papers for school, and Keynote 08 for doing presentations for school, those are really the 2 apps in both suites i use.

 

Or even taking a look at any of the ten recent threads on this topic I linked.

 

Office 08 is actually quite nice, a lot better than Office 04 in my opinion.

I use Word 08 for writing documents, but I use Keynote 08 for all my presentations.

To be honest like others have said Office is the best bet, unless you not sharing your files.

 

office for compatibility.
iwork for usability.

 

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I personally use iWork though...

 

Honestly I prefer to have both...sometimes iWork is nicer for things like Keynote and general simplicity and other times I'm using office apps for other things...

gotta have both

 

I've never gotten conversion errors. I love iLife - I use '08.

 

Endnote, which is what most people use for referencing, works with neither Office 2008 nor Pages (any version). Endnote is compatible with Office 2004...