It's useful to know that Apple has kept the iWork file formats well-documented so far. However, I'd love to hear from Apple about why TextEdit in Leopard supports ODF and iWork does not. We've heard this story before and we've always hated it. What it doesn't do is answer the basic question of why we need another set of document formats. So, while it's true that iWorks is the only real option for editing them now, it shouldn't be too hard to convert them in the future However, if iWork 08 is a major improvement with compatibility, or if NeoOffice makes big improvements with speed and its interface, then I might not have to shell out the cash. Personally, I'm waiting for MS Office 2008 to come out (finally a native version for Intel Macs). The fact that the widgets are non-native and fake-looking do not add to the problem, either. However, my complaint with NeoOffice is its speed (it is dog slow on my 1.83GHz Core Duo MacBook with 512MB RAM, but I plan on upgrading to 2GB). NeoOffice's compatibility with MS Office documents is superb, and I use NeoOffice to open and save documents where compatibility is very important. NeoOffice was a necessity to me because of its spreadsheet (iWork 06 doesn't have a spreadsheet that changed with iWork 08 I still need to try it).
As stated earlier, I vastly prefer Writer to Pages. So, I like iWork a lot (much speedier than MS Office 2004 due to my having an Intel Mac, not to mention cheaper ), but for perfect compatibility, I don't trust it. The basics are correct, but anything that requires tables, exact layout, more complex styles, etc. My biggest problem with iWork (don't know about iWork 2008, however) is its very imperfect compatibility with MS Office file formats. I like the concepts of styles and use LaTeX for all of my non-MLA papers, but whenever writing any other type of document, I prefer the more "free" structure of Word/OO Writer/AbiWord/etc. I love Keynote (I bought it solely for Keynote, in fact) and believe that Keynote > PowerPoint > OO Impress, but I'm just not really into Pages no matter how many times I've used it.
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*Office doesn't.Īfter purchasing my MacBook last year (I was previously a Windows and *nix user, now my Mac is my sole computer), I tried (and eventually purchased iWork 06. iWork looks, feels, and behaves like a native program.
I've used OpenOffice/NeoOffice (on Linux and Mac OS).
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Like many other Macintosh users, I downloaded the iWorks '08 trial and promptly purchased it.
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