Thanks Tony and Ray. Very reassuring. Can't wait to get it now! 2009/9/8 tcrooks <[email protected]>
> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
