Hi Mike
Yep, iWork is $79, but you can get a 30-day trial at:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial
It's got a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, and presentation and has very
good MS office compatibility. One thing I really like is that, when
opening a Microsoft Office document, rather than just rendering it
improperly (wrong fonts, etc) it will warn you and give a reason (i.e.
if you don't have the proper font installed, it will tell you so). It
still may not render properly without the right fonts, but at least
you'll know why. Accessibility of iWork 9 isn't perfect, but it's
still quite useable. I actually find it more useable than Openoffice
especially in the Wordprocessing area. Even tables are accessible in
Office documents, though it is a bit clunky at the moment. Still, a
bit clunky is better than having no access to them, and up until now
that was the case. Keynote, the presentation software, is actually
mostly accessible as well, I was just able to view a Powerpoint with
relative ease. I tried this with Openoffice's Impress and found it to
be very unstable, so having access to powerpoint is a plus as well.
On Jan 6, 2009, at 20:41, Mike Arrigo wrote:
Is this something you need to purchase? I'm assuming it's an office
suite.
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Dan wrote:
Hello everyone,
I just installed the new iWork 9 and I am really empressed so far.
I wrote a small basic document in Pages and all I can say is,
"Wow!!!!!!!!!"
Now for Numbers and Keynote.
This is really exciting.
Dan
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