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: - Learning
Have always been a Microsoft user, but after years of frustration with PCs I switched to MAC and bought iWork. It is very similar to Office and very easy to use. Only complaint is that Pages does not count words, which is important to me when writing a paper. Other than that, I'm glad I purchased it.
Rating: - iWorks great for students
Apple's iWork 08 is great for students, Pages combines the ease of Word with Publisher style templates that make for great looking papers, Keynote and Numbers also have this "easy to use, easy on the eye" interface. I've just had a few issues with exporting documents to word, but nothing major, the iWork suit is far more stable and a bit cheaper than Office for Mac, great buy.
Rating: - Numbers is NO Excel!!
I have been a Mac user since 1985 but for the last 10 years, I've used Excel for all my work spreadsheets. When I heard that "Numbers" was "just like Excel but better," I happily bought iWork thinking I'd convert all my boring Excel spreadsheets into these colorful, attractive presentations.
I was disappointed to learn that you cannot "freeze panes" in Numbers (an Excel MUST), you cannot TOTAL up several rows like in Excel unless you manually create a formula and drag it around (Excel does it automatically) and lots of little things are missing as far as Sum, formulas, etc.
I created some letters in Pages but could not email them because my email system does not recognize the document format (and the people receiving them were on Macs so they couldn't have opened them anyway!).
Beware - Numbers is NO Excel... :(
Rating: - If you use a Mac, can you do better than MS Office?
You can. This iWork '08 software can do most of what Office does, is simpler to use, and is far more stable (no crashes, system lock-ups or spinning beach balls). It also opens Office documents, and can optionally save its own documents in the standard Office formats, so that you can share them with others using the Wintel platform. Recommended.
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