Apple's productivity suite for the Mac, iWork '08 includes three applications: Pages '08, Numbers '08, and Keynote '08
Powerful word processing and page layout with 140 Apple-designed templates with Pages
Effortlessly create stunning presentations, complete with Apple-designed themes, cinema-quality animations, and voiceover narration with Keynote
Create compelling spreadsheets for everything from family budgets and event planning to invoices and complex financial reports with Numbers
Import and export compatibility with Microsoft Office
Rating: - Apple iWork-great product
iWork is Apple's version of Microsoft Works. Has a word processor, Pages; a presentation maker, Keynote; and a spread sheet, Numbers. All meet or excide my needs.
Rating: - No default control
Do not like like lack of ability to change default setting in Numbers. That includws color of grid lines. My eyesight is poor. Also. no way to print row and column headings.
Rating: - iWorks
Generally satisfied. I wish Numbers had been accompanied by a good tutorial. It is quite different from MS Office which I am fairly acquainted with so better instructions would be handy. Also some of the most usable MS Office attributes are missing.
Rating: - Not an Office substitute
This program is great... if you are operating in an environment full of Mac users or not trading files with anyone at all. When it comes to working with Microsoft files (which dominate the rest of the working and academic world) this package falls flat. Formatting goes missing, documents look funny, and nothing is ever quite the way you expected it to be.
I have one word for Office users moving to Mac: DON'T. Shell out the extra cash for Office 2008 for Mac.
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