iWorks - moving from MS Office
Hi, I'm contemplating on moving my day-to-day productivity work over to the Mac and was wondering from those whom had used MS Office under Windows felt about the ease of use of iWorks. I've never used Office versions later than 2003 so my experience is limited to those related to that and later versions. I do, however, receive documents, spreadsheets and presentations which were created under newer versions of Office and do have a need to move out the same to others. How well is this handled?? If I run W7 under VMWare or BootCamp, I'd still have to pull in a copy of Office compatible with W7 and that's even more cost so just trying to keep my expenses down. Otherwise, I'll have to find a Windows based notebook for this work. I'm still hoping my next notebook would be a MBP instead of a Windows notebook. Right now, for an investment of $79.00 for iWorks seems more economical for my iMac than doing it with W7 and Office plus VMWare. Then, once I get my MBP, purchasing it all again (of course I really wouldn't have to since docs and files are saved also under native iWorks file types). Also, I remember someone asking about an OSX compatible Database program to handle databases from Access but don't remember seeing an answer. Has anyone found such a program? Thanks, Vince -- Vince Mistretta My Tech / Programming mailbox -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: iWorks - moving from MS Office
Hello Vince, I haven't used MS Office, but I know a bit about iWork09. It works very well apart from handling Tables in Pages. If you wish to put a table in a Pages document, you have to create it in Numbers, then copy and paste it into Pages, where you can't see it for what it is. It will just show up as a highlighted space, but if you copy that space and paste it into a Numbers document, you'll find the whole table is there. Apart from that, you can set styles, change colours and font types, and so on. There are a couple of VoiceOver On podcasts about iWork09 that might get you started. Cheers, Anne On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Vince Mistretta wrote: Hi, I'm contemplating on moving my day-to-day productivity work over to the Mac and was wondering from those whom had used MS Office under Windows felt about the ease of use of iWorks. I've never used Office versions later than 2003 so my experience is limited to those related to that and later versions. I do, however, receive documents, spreadsheets and presentations which were created under newer versions of Office and do have a need to move out the same to others. How well is this handled?? If I run W7 under VMWare or BootCamp, I'd still have to pull in a copy of Office compatible with W7 and that's even more cost so just trying to keep my expenses down. Otherwise, I'll have to find a Windows based notebook for this work. I'm still hoping my next notebook would be a MBP instead of a Windows notebook. Right now, for an investment of $79.00 for iWorks seems more economical for my iMac than doing it with W7 and Office plus VMWare. Then, once I get my MBP, purchasing it all again (of course I really wouldn't have to since docs and files are saved also under native iWorks file types). Also, I remember someone asking about an OSX compatible Database program to handle databases from Access but don't remember seeing an answer. Has anyone found such a program? Thanks, Vince -- Vince Mistretta My Tech / Programming mailbox -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
RE: iWorks - moving from MS Office
One thing I think you can't do is track changes. If you use this function a lot, as I do, you'll have to have your windows os with ms word to do that. Kimber -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 4:17 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iWorks - moving from MS Office Hello Vince, I haven't used MS Office, but I know a bit about iWork09. It works very well apart from handling Tables in Pages. If you wish to put a table in a Pages document, you have to create it in Numbers, then copy and paste it into Pages, where you can't see it for what it is. It will just show up as a highlighted space, but if you copy that space and paste it into a Numbers document, you'll find the whole table is there. Apart from that, you can set styles, change colours and font types, and so on. There are a couple of VoiceOver On podcasts about iWork09 that might get you started. Cheers, Anne On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Vince Mistretta wrote: Hi, I'm contemplating on moving my day-to-day productivity work over to the Mac and was wondering from those whom had used MS Office under Windows felt about the ease of use of iWorks. I've never used Office versions later than 2003 so my experience is limited to those related to that and later versions. I do, however, receive documents, spreadsheets and presentations which were created under newer versions of Office and do have a need to move out the same to others. How well is this handled?? If I run W7 under VMWare or BootCamp, I'd still have to pull in a copy of Office compatible with W7 and that's even more cost so just trying to keep my expenses down. Otherwise, I'll have to find a Windows based notebook for this work. I'm still hoping my next notebook would be a MBP instead of a Windows notebook. Right now, for an investment of $79.00 for iWorks seems more economical for my iMac than doing it with W7 and Office plus VMWare. Then, once I get my MBP, purchasing it all again (of course I really wouldn't have to since docs and files are saved also under native iWorks file types). Also, I remember someone asking about an OSX compatible Database program to handle databases from Access but don't remember seeing an answer. Has anyone found such a program? Thanks, Vince -- Vince Mistretta My Tech / Programming mailbox -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: iWorks - moving from MS Office
Pages does in fact handle track changes. I can't comment on said featre though, since I haven't actually used it myself on the Mac. Still, it's worth giving it a try.u On Jun 24, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Kimberly wrote: One thing I think you can't do is track changes. If you use this function a lot, as I do, you'll have to have your windows os with ms word to do that. Kimber -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 4:17 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iWorks - moving from MS Office Hello Vince, I haven't used MS Office, but I know a bit about iWork09. It works very well apart from handling Tables in Pages. If you wish to put a table in a Pages document, you have to create it in Numbers, then copy and paste it into Pages, where you can't see it for what it is. It will just show up as a highlighted space, but if you copy that space and paste it into a Numbers document, you'll find the whole table is there. Apart from that, you can set styles, change colours and font types, and so on. There are a couple of VoiceOver On podcasts about iWork09 that might get you started. Cheers, Anne On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Vince Mistretta wrote: Hi, I'm contemplating on moving my day-to-day productivity work over to the Mac and was wondering from those whom had used MS Office under Windows felt about the ease of use of iWorks. I've never used Office versions later than 2003 so my experience is limited to those related to that and later versions. I do, however, receive documents, spreadsheets and presentations which were created under newer versions of Office and do have a need to move out the same to others. How well is this handled?? If I run W7 under VMWare or BootCamp, I'd still have to pull in a copy of Office compatible with W7 and that's even more cost so just trying to keep my expenses down. Otherwise, I'll have to find a Windows based notebook for this work. I'm still hoping my next notebook would be a MBP instead of a Windows notebook. Right now, for an investment of $79.00 for iWorks seems more economical for my iMac than doing it with W7 and Office plus VMWare. Then, once I get my MBP, purchasing it all again (of course I really wouldn't have to since docs and files are saved also under native iWorks file types). Also, I remember someone asking about an OSX compatible Database program to handle databases from Access but don't remember seeing an answer. Has anyone found such a program? Thanks, Vince -- Vince Mistretta My Tech / Programming mailbox -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
