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- 15" unibody MBP, Core Duo 2.66, NIVIDEA 9400 graphics, 4GB DDR3
Part of the reason why I upgraded to a Mac rather than getting a less expensive lappy is that I simply do not want to give Microsoft any more of my money. I would have wiped the drive and put my favorite Linux on it, but M$ would still get their Windoze levy and a tick mark for a Vista unit sold. I won't give them that.
To that end, one of the first apps I installed was OpenOffice 3 to do my work-related stuff on. The problem is, there are a lot of small but noticeable differences in the way OOo formats vs. MS Office. If I save a change to my resume in OOo, for example, it looks different, especially in the page layout and margins, than it does if I open the document in MS Word. That's been a problem that has had me crawling back to the old XP install rather than just making changes on the Mac, because I am actively job searching right now, and most of the submissions I have made of my resume have been requested in .doc format.
Getting to my question finally: in addition to not wanting to give M$ any more of my money, I have heard of Office for Mac really causing issues, such as slower system performance, systems hangs, and mostly just being garbage all around. Reviews of iWork seem to be overwhelmingly positive. So, to those of you that have used it, how accurately do small formatting changes translate when moving back-and-forth between Pages and Word?
Thanks for hanging in there through the rant.
To that end, one of the first apps I installed was OpenOffice 3 to do my work-related stuff on. The problem is, there are a lot of small but noticeable differences in the way OOo formats vs. MS Office. If I save a change to my resume in OOo, for example, it looks different, especially in the page layout and margins, than it does if I open the document in MS Word. That's been a problem that has had me crawling back to the old XP install rather than just making changes on the Mac, because I am actively job searching right now, and most of the submissions I have made of my resume have been requested in .doc format.
Getting to my question finally: in addition to not wanting to give M$ any more of my money, I have heard of Office for Mac really causing issues, such as slower system performance, systems hangs, and mostly just being garbage all around. Reviews of iWork seem to be overwhelmingly positive. So, to those of you that have used it, how accurately do small formatting changes translate when moving back-and-forth between Pages and Word?
Thanks for hanging in there through the rant.