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07-21-2008, 08:29 PM
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#1 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: University of Pennsylvania
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| iWork or Microsoft Office for my Macbook
Which of these should I get? Wouldn't Microsoft Office be more convenient? Or is iWork just as good? | 
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07-21-2008, 08:56 PM
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#2 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Miami, Florida Gender: Male
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| Get NeoOffice and be done with it. NeoOffice Home | |
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07-22-2008, 09:15 AM
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#3 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Chicago, IL Gender: Female
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| Get Microsoft Office. Otherwise, you'll be struggling with it every single time you have to use a school computer, since they completely changed the interface in Office 2007. It's become much better, but it takes some getting used to if you haven't worked on it for a long time. | |
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07-22-2008, 11:17 AM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Reading, PA Gender: Male
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| I agree. In terms of campadability, Office would be a better choice for sharing documents. | |
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07-22-2008, 10:40 PM
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#5 | | Member
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| I suggest Microsoft Office--Especially for the compatibility with emailing documents from your Mac to a PC which is essential in college. | |
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07-23-2008, 04:41 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: ASU 2011
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| Microsoft Office is definitely the better choice as your professors and classmates will most likely be using Office too. | |
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07-24-2008, 01:27 AM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
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| The free Office-like products just aren't up to par. I tried using OpenOffice's powerpoint competitor and you could just tell that Microsoft PowerPoint had better quality in terms of overall features. | |
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07-24-2008, 01:51 AM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
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| def microsoft office. many colleges have the latest version of office for both pcs and macs in their libraries or computer helpdesks, and you can install it for free too! | |
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07-24-2008, 11:55 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Vermont Gender: Male
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| An easy solution here is to go with iWork, because, especially for presentations, one can change the format when it's done. A Keynote presentation will always look smoothest and best in general, and is easily exported as a Quicktime movie. A Pages doc becomes a PDF when needed to print somewhere. It's amazing. | |
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07-25-2008, 11:58 AM
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A Pages doc becomes a PDF when needed to print somewhere.
| You can do that in Office as well. | |
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07-25-2008, 12:42 PM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Miami, Florida Gender: Male
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You can do that in Office as well.
| With the freeware version of CutePDF Writer, you can do that with ANY program. CutePDF - Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Save PDF Forms, Edit PDF easily.
It gets installed as a printer in your computer. Whenever you want to make a PDF, just print the document and choose the PDF printer. | |
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07-25-2008, 12:48 PM
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#12 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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| there is also an MS Office license that lets you put it on 3 different computers. So if you or your family or friends have other desktops/laptops who might need MS Office, that can also be a factor to consider. | |
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08-03-2008, 11:15 AM
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#13 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: MI -> Duke '12 Gender: Male
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| wait so if you have office for windows you can put it on a mac for free?
Does anyone recommend buying both, since some say iWork works more smoothly and is better for presentations and Office is much more convenient? | |
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08-03-2008, 11:26 AM
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#14 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: University of Pennsylvania
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| I don't see why you would buy both - I'm just gonna get office for my mac and be done with it. | |
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08-03-2008, 12:38 PM
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#15 | | Junior Member
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| office is more convenient and more popular, i'd say forget about iwork. | |
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