I need MS office. I get Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint
presentations from clients and colleagues, and I have to be able to
see them. All of them. I tried a demo version of Apple iWorks for a
while, but it couldn't realistically deal with all MS Office files.
And some word.doc files created in iWork couldn't be opened by some PC-
based clients. On this one, I'd say, "Nice try Apple, but no cigar." I
have no love for Microsoft, but I don't let personal feelings get in
the way of good business practices.
Paul
On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Oct 24, 2008, at 4:58 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
I've downloaded Open Office from OpenOffice.org as an alternative
to Microsoft Office.
I do have licenses for Office 2003 (I think it is), and could
install that IF I wanted to, but Open Office is FREEWARE, and does
just about everything MS Office does and can produce compatible
output.
There are a couple of things it does different that I'm still
getting used to, but overall, I'm very pleased with the
performance ... and definitely pleased with the price.
Looks like a new version was released this month with a native OS-X
port.
I only use Calc & Writer, but there are a bunch of other
components. The presentation program Impress can output to Adobe
Flash SWF files or PDF files, so if I ever need to do a slide-show
presentation again ...
I don't need MS Office either.
The $80 spent on Apple's iWork package is worth it for the Keynote
presentation software alone. *Nothing* else does as good a job for
presentations, not that I've found. It's the best way I've found to
show photographs to a group, never mind it's capabilities for doing
presentations. The same could be said for any one of the three
applications.
Pages and Numbers do a darn fine job too. Pages reads Word docs,
Numbers reads Excel docs.
All of them can output to PDF, HTML, QuickTime, Flash, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, etc as appropriate to the application.
Apple updates them with bug fixes and feature additions regularly as
well. Fully supported, full featured, etc etc.
Godfrey
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