Scorbing Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Suggestions please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I'd just get Office 2008 and keep it simple. It works, and it's not too expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysaor Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Mac doesn't really have a good Office suite, Office 2008 is the best among them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I'd recommend Office 2008 for Mac as it is quite powerful compared to Apple's iWork suite. There is also better interoperability between Office document formats on Mac/Windows, I find that iWork's export feature pretty much mangles a document if you try to export it as a Microsoft Office document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrick Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I actually have both. I love the templates for for the iWork suite. (Haven't had to make a presentation yet, but I really want to try it out on Keynote). However, I need Excel for my Engineering class. Too many specific directions to follow, for me to spend the time finding out where they are located in Numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyLarry Veteran Posted October 21, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 21, 2009 Office 2008 While iLife is a nice suite, the truth of the matter is some of the apps just do not work on Windows. This was a few years back so they may have very well made improvements, but I was working in a Multi-Platform office. The design studio was all Mac based, but the rest of the company, financing, human resources, management, etc., were all Windows based. I had created a real nice presentation in Keynote I was presenting to some of the management, but then I had to export it to PPT so the CEO and a few other of the higher ups could view it again on their own time. Well all of the things that made it so nice to begin with simply did not work or were not even available in PPT, so I pretty much had to recreate it from scratch. That is a dramatic example, but it did indeed happen, so just giving you an idea of what you will be dealing with. So considering the nature of Office itself, and the assumption that if you are using it on a frequent basis and will be sharing documents with other people, Office 2008 is the safest best in regards to making sure people, whatever OS you may be on, can use and or view what you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted October 21, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 21, 2009 If you need to use spreadsheets, Office 2008, if you dont, iWork 09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted October 21, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted October 21, 2009 Use the format that 95% of the world uses? Office. But, I do REALLY like iWork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted October 21, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 21, 2009 Use the format that 95% of the world uses? Office.But, I do REALLY like iWork Iwork can open and save Office files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I use in my iMac iWork 09 and is super cool, I can open virtually anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windbag Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Under "Office Suite" you mean Word\Excel or a software pack for business work? For project management, idea generation and organizing, business diagramming and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Iwork can open and save Office files Sure. Just don't expect even basic formatting to be correct when you go to open a Pages document in Word and vice-versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 For basic, day-to-day use and documents that only you will be working with, iWork '09 is fine. Otherwise, just use Office 2008. Both work fine and will get the job done at the end of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
master2k27 Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 office 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted October 24, 2009 Member Share Posted October 24, 2009 I don't have a Mac but a friend of mine does and she loves iWork. She uses it for everything. I think it would be fine unless you need comparability with Office. I've also heard good things about NeoOffice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osirisX Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I had created a real nice presentation in Keynote I was presenting to some of the management, but then I had to export it to PPT so the CEO and a few other of the higher ups could view it again on their own time. Well all of the things that made it so nice to begin with simply did not work or were not even available in PPT, so I pretty much had to recreate it from scratch. You should have exported it out as a Quicktime movie. It would have preserved everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizzaaa Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I prefered iWork '09 instead of Office 2008. Pages is a great word processoring app - very easy, very fast, much better that Microsoft Word for Mac. I had to install Office 2008 so I could work on Excel spreadsheets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 You should have exported it out as a Quicktime movie. It would have preserved everything. +1. A Quicktime movie would've done perfectly to preserve the transitions and animations. If they just needed the information on it, you could've exported it as a PDF. Just as good for viewing information and preserves the formatting. I prefered iWork '09 instead of Office 2008.Pages is a great word processoring app - very easy, very fast, much better that Microsoft Word for Mac. I agree. :p I just recommend Office 2008 because, in the end, it's just easier for somebody coming from Windows to just pick up and go with. I think iWork is superior for my needs for sure, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neoauld Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Just get Office for mac theres no substitute really unless you absolutely dont need the format compatibility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewaaz Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Call me crazy, but I'm absolutely in love with the Office 2007 Ribbon UI. I bought a MacBook Pro a few months ago and run a virtual machine with XP, just so I can have Office 2007. Now that it's all set up properly, it's all seemless and the apps run as if they are native (i.e. the Windows apps run inside of Mac OS). I tried Office 2008 (the Mac version) and didn't like it - seemed a bit too fifddly - the ribbon seems much simpler and easier to use, esp. with a trackpad. Each to their own, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breed Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I would recommend Office 2008 for Mac. Love being able to save Word docs to PDF natively. That being said, I do a fair amount of presentations and am really starting to like Keynote after 10+ years of PowerPoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nihal Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 google docs works pretty well for basic documents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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