Hi, Virginia, While the MacBook Pro comes with iLife 09 as part of the package, iWork 09 is a to-pay-for product. The Pages component of iWork handles all but the most complex MS Word document layouts. You just have to remember to use either the 'Save as' or 'Export' options in the File menu to save as an MS Word document. With just using Pages you'd have to either remember to open Word document email attachments with Pages or make Pages the default application to open files with a .doc suffix using the Get Info option for a .doc file and using the 'Open with' section of the Get Info panel.
There are other options instead of MS Word - OpenOffice, Google Docs..... Tony On 7 Sep, 15:27, Virginia <[email protected]> wrote: > I am going to take the plunge and buy a MacBook Pro, and give away my iBook > and G5 (to grandchildren). Could you advise me about iLife which comes with > the new laptop? The sales guy at the Apple shop said the 09 is a much > better version than the earlier ones and this is the word processing package > to use, but my memory of trying to use iWork 06 is that it was incompatible > with Microsoft programmes so that if I was sent an attachment with an email > from a MS computer I couldn't open it. Up to now I have used Word for Mac > as my word processing programme. Will I still have to do so with my new > computer ie buy MS office for Mac (the disk I have apparently won't work > with intel computers.) Ugh. I hate the thought of it. But iWork is no use > unless I can send and receive attachments from MS computers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" 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/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
