I recently bought an iMac which I really love and plan to make my main computer replacing my Windows 7 PC.
I'm currently using Microsoft Office 2007 on my Windows PC and have a large amount of Word .doc and Excel .xls files mostly created with Office 2003.
I need to be able to open and edit these files and wanted to ask others who have made the shift to Mac whether they have any problems doing this with iWork?
My doc files are mostly pretty simple without fancy tables or graphics and my Excel files are also pretty basic with no graphs or charts.
I've seen comments that Office 2008 for Mac isn't as good as Office 2007 for PC and I'm aware there is the chance of a free upgrade to the latest version of Office for the Mac in November. However, I would just prefer to make a clean break and go with Apple based software.
I know I could use Parallels to run Office 2007 but this just seems a step backwards to me.
I’d appreciate anyone’s thoughts on which way to go with this and any problems or successes you’ve had.
Duncan
I'm currently using Microsoft Office 2007 on my Windows PC and have a large amount of Word .doc and Excel .xls files mostly created with Office 2003.
I need to be able to open and edit these files and wanted to ask others who have made the shift to Mac whether they have any problems doing this with iWork?
My doc files are mostly pretty simple without fancy tables or graphics and my Excel files are also pretty basic with no graphs or charts.
I've seen comments that Office 2008 for Mac isn't as good as Office 2007 for PC and I'm aware there is the chance of a free upgrade to the latest version of Office for the Mac in November. However, I would just prefer to make a clean break and go with Apple based software.
I know I could use Parallels to run Office 2007 but this just seems a step backwards to me.
I’d appreciate anyone’s thoughts on which way to go with this and any problems or successes you’ve had.
Duncan