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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1018305"><p>Pages specifically is probably (if I'm being honest) not as good a word processor as MS Word. On the other hand, 99% of Word users don't really need all the features of Word, and Pages' templates (and even just their blank pages, thanks to the advanced typography of the Mac) are beautiful.</p><p></p><p>Where Pages trounces Word is in doing desktop layout. Pages is a lot closer to Pagemaker in this regard and Word just can't touch em.</p><p></p><p>Keynote is hands-down far superior to PowerPoint and that's the end of that tune. No contest.</p><p></p><p>Numbers is a rather radical re-think of what a spreadsheet should be. Excel users will find it utterly bewildering, non-Excelheads will find it as delightful and fun as a spreadsheet could possibly be, since its really more of a desktop layout tool that does spreadsheets, tables and graphs really well. It's quite limited in its "power" compared to Excel however.</p><p></p><p>So Office definitely has some advantages in some areas, and iWork has some advantages in other areas (mostly in making documents beautiful). Since you get a discount, price isn't an issue, so I'm going to say you should take the test drive of both and see which one suits you. You're really not going to go wrong either way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1018305"] Pages specifically is probably (if I'm being honest) not as good a word processor as MS Word. On the other hand, 99% of Word users don't really need all the features of Word, and Pages' templates (and even just their blank pages, thanks to the advanced typography of the Mac) are beautiful. Where Pages trounces Word is in doing desktop layout. Pages is a lot closer to Pagemaker in this regard and Word just can't touch em. Keynote is hands-down far superior to PowerPoint and that's the end of that tune. No contest. Numbers is a rather radical re-think of what a spreadsheet should be. Excel users will find it utterly bewildering, non-Excelheads will find it as delightful and fun as a spreadsheet could possibly be, since its really more of a desktop layout tool that does spreadsheets, tables and graphs really well. It's quite limited in its "power" compared to Excel however. So Office definitely has some advantages in some areas, and iWork has some advantages in other areas (mostly in making documents beautiful). Since you get a discount, price isn't an issue, so I'm going to say you should take the test drive of both and see which one suits you. You're really not going to go wrong either way. [/QUOTE]
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