Hello Adrian, iWork09 is your best bet for an office package.
Pages can read MS Word documents and export to MS Word. Numbers is compatible with Excel, and Keynote is reasonably compatible with PowerPoint. I work as a freelance translator and use Pages all the time. The only problems I have with it are textboxes, when imported from Word. Pages puts them at the end of the document, unless they are those weird hidden ones, in which case, it doesn't see them at all. It's also messy dealing with tables in Pages documents. VoiceOver doesn't read the tables within the Pages document, they just show up as highlighted spaces. However, they can be copied into a Numbers document where they are perfectly accessible. I'm hoping that the next release of iWork will fix these problems. Unfortunately, there are no training materials available for iWork for VoiceOver users. You just have to ask questions and hope someone else has found the answers. Cheers, Anne On 24 Dec 2010, at 00:28, Adrian Higginbotham wrote: > Hi all: > I'm new to the list and very new to Macs. > I've had an ipod touch for a couple of months and am about to get a macbook > pro mainly for use in part time study. I'll be stuck with windows at work > but hope to be depending on the mac at home as soon as possible. > > As i'll be using my machine for professional writing tasks, such as > freelance journalism, and my postgrad study I'll be needing a professional > word processor ideally with other office suite applications too. Is Works > the only show in town or are there any other packages to consider? > > Thanks for your help. > > Adrian Higginbotham > E: [email protected] > Twitter: @AHiggi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
