Mac software... and a few questions

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Dracoro said:

I like iWork if I'm creating a document.

I use OpenOffice if someone sends me an office doc.

iWork Pages makes a mess of word docs with tables in it for example - certainly with a load of docs I've received. For this reason alone, have OpenOffice in case, it's free after all.

This is a good idea that i hadn't thought of, thanks

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According to the Apple store website, iWork has a much better rating than Office 2008. I notice that iWork can be installed on up to 5 Computers, this could be handy, i have a 2 year old iMac and 2 year old Macbook (with openoffice installed) too

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Paul 2000 said:

I'm another giving a big thumbs up for iWork. The Pages app is not only a good word processing program but it also has a page make-up mode which makes creating good-looking leaflets/flyers/stationery a breeze, with a big selection of professional templates to get you started. With iWork you'll also be able to open all Word/PowerPoint/Excel files and if you want to, for sharing files with Office users, save your Pages files as Word, your Numbers files as Excel and your Keynote files as Powerpoint.

Or turn them into a .PDF file. That's what I do if I have to send someone a file and I don't know what software they use.