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iCal, Mac Mail, iWork vs Office for Mac 2008
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1221011"><p>It depends on your situation, but broadly speaking I find Pages to be a vastly better word processor than Word, and fully compatible for what I do with it. The desktop-layout portion of Pages has no direct equivalent in Word, so again I find that superior.</p><p></p><p>Keynote is so completely and totally in every aspect (but one really minor thing) superior to PowerPoint I can't believe anyone still uses PowerPoint except for the "sheep mentality" and dominance of PCs. No serious presenting professional should be caught dead with PP anymore.</p><p></p><p>Numbers -- well in some ways it's also vastly better than Excel, but in many other ways Excel totally rules over Numbers. I'd say Numbers is the right choice for beautiful presentations of spreadsheet data, but Excel is the better choice for the nitty-gritty work of such types of projects.</p><p></p><p>So, overall I think iWork rocks, but there ARE situations (particularly those in which a beautiful presentation of your documents doesn't count for much, or people are using Office-exclusive features very heavily) where using Microsoft Office for Mac is the better choice. It's too bad they're only offering you the old version, but if the above descriptors apply to your work situation, Office might be the better choice. I'm glad I don't have those issues so I'm free to use iWork.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1221011"] It depends on your situation, but broadly speaking I find Pages to be a vastly better word processor than Word, and fully compatible for what I do with it. The desktop-layout portion of Pages has no direct equivalent in Word, so again I find that superior. Keynote is so completely and totally in every aspect (but one really minor thing) superior to PowerPoint I can't believe anyone still uses PowerPoint except for the "sheep mentality" and dominance of PCs. No serious presenting professional should be caught dead with PP anymore. Numbers -- well in some ways it's also vastly better than Excel, but in many other ways Excel totally rules over Numbers. I'd say Numbers is the right choice for beautiful presentations of spreadsheet data, but Excel is the better choice for the nitty-gritty work of such types of projects. So, overall I think iWork rocks, but there ARE situations (particularly those in which a beautiful presentation of your documents doesn't count for much, or people are using Office-exclusive features very heavily) where using Microsoft Office for Mac is the better choice. It's too bad they're only offering you the old version, but if the above descriptors apply to your work situation, Office might be the better choice. I'm glad I don't have those issues so I'm free to use iWork. [/QUOTE]
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