First, count your blessings.
I’m very, very, very lucky to have access to two of the best work suites available to Mac users. First up, there’s iWork — Apple’s own suite that includes Numbers, Keynote and Pages.
For many of the PC loyalists out there, Pages is Steve Jobs’ answer to MS Word; Numbers is Excel; and Keynote is Powerpoint.
Putting it like that, though, seems a little off. I’m not saying that they’re exactly alike. In fact, there are gazillions of differences between what iWork and Office for Mac 2008 can offer. I experienced both suites first hand, though, so I suppose I can give at least a brief comparison of the two. So, deep breath, and here goes.
I switched to Mac early this year. My baby, MacLovin, is not even a year old. I loved it immediately, and wanted nothing more to do with Windows-based applications. After all, Mac has everything, too. Almost all, of course, since some programs are still entrenched in Windows, but at the very least, my needs and some wants are covered.
However, since a lot of my clients are using Windows, I have no choice but to find a way to convert my documents. I downloaded Neo Office and it did do the trick, but I hated the interface. It was absolutely difficult to change the page set-up and settings just messed themselves up time and again.
So I finally found a way to get my hands on a copy of iWork and Office for Mac 2008, and promptly deleted my Neo Office installation.
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