What Office Suite Do You Recommend For Snow Leopard?


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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.

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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.

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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.

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Use the format that 95% of the world uses? Office.

But, I do REALLY like iWork

Iwork can open and save Office files

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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