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buy Microsoft Office for Mac.
I've been a switcher for well over a year. When I switched, I really SWITCHED. I wanted nothing to do with anything windowz at all.
Therefore I went all in with Apple. I have used iWorks apps since I first switched and absolutely love them.
The problem is that hardly any of the people I correspond with have Mac's. They would all love them, but can't afford them. So this leaves me with a problem.
Now I know that I can save Pages documents as a .doc or Numbers docs as .xls and can also drag their Word and Excel docs into Pages to open them, but you all know the limitations of doing that. You lose some formatting, as well as fonts and other things.
So I'm seriously looking into Microsoft Office for Mac. This would NOT be my main source of doing my own documents as I am too much in love with iWorks, but if I needed to put something together for a group of folks, I would likely go to use Word or Excel.
I have always valued the opinions of this forum so I'm looking for some honest and realistic (read, non-fanboy) comments from each of you.
I know I'm a fanboy (hard to admit, but dang it, Apple makes some sweet stuff), but in regards to this I really want to make an informed decision. Especially considering the price of the package.
So, here are a few questions:
1) Is the Office for Mac suite solid? (no crashing, bugs, etc)
2) Has it caused any problems with your Mac at all (like all windows pc's seem to?)
3) Are you happy with your purchase?
4) Anything else you would like to add?
Thank you all for your time and sharing of information and opinions. I really do appreciate it!
Steve
I've been a switcher for well over a year. When I switched, I really SWITCHED. I wanted nothing to do with anything windowz at all.
Therefore I went all in with Apple. I have used iWorks apps since I first switched and absolutely love them.
The problem is that hardly any of the people I correspond with have Mac's. They would all love them, but can't afford them. So this leaves me with a problem.
Now I know that I can save Pages documents as a .doc or Numbers docs as .xls and can also drag their Word and Excel docs into Pages to open them, but you all know the limitations of doing that. You lose some formatting, as well as fonts and other things.
So I'm seriously looking into Microsoft Office for Mac. This would NOT be my main source of doing my own documents as I am too much in love with iWorks, but if I needed to put something together for a group of folks, I would likely go to use Word or Excel.
I have always valued the opinions of this forum so I'm looking for some honest and realistic (read, non-fanboy) comments from each of you.
I know I'm a fanboy (hard to admit, but dang it, Apple makes some sweet stuff), but in regards to this I really want to make an informed decision. Especially considering the price of the package.
So, here are a few questions:
1) Is the Office for Mac suite solid? (no crashing, bugs, etc)
2) Has it caused any problems with your Mac at all (like all windows pc's seem to?)
3) Are you happy with your purchase?
4) Anything else you would like to add?
Thank you all for your time and sharing of information and opinions. I really do appreciate it!
Steve