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1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 iWork, 2008-07-14
The new iWork program is a great software package that is extremely easy to use. iWorks has three applications (Pages '08; Keynote '08; & Numbers '08) with common operating features. The iWork program allows me to quickly create everything from a news letter to business documents.
I previously used MS Works and MS Office on my old PC and was proficient with their uses. After two week's use of iWork, I am creating better quality documents in less time. I see the potential through the use of iWork for me to becoming a creative pro.
This is an excellent product that will not disappoint. I am a very satisfied user and highly recommend this software suite of programs.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Good Apple program for the average person, 2008-07-12
I bought my macbook for grad school and wanted to get as far away from Microsoft as possible, so It made most sense to buy Iwork 08 pre-installed. After one semester of use, as well as using the page layout portion of Pages, I am extremely happy with my decision. While word has more features, most of which I never used, Pages has the features and tools I need. Where Pages fall short is in its editing tools. Pages lacks a good spell and grammar check. Which could be a good thing because I often rely too much on a spell checker and do not manually check my writing myself. The page layout part of Pages is amazing for its price. While it's not InDesign, for a1/5th the price, its good. From what I've read, many reviewers are annoyed with the import function. Personally I do not find importing to be annoying or burdensome. To import to word or powerpoint, it takes two seconds.
I have not worked with numbers, and have limited experience with keynote. But from what I've tried and messed around with in Keynote, I can tell it is a great program.
So, overall this office suite is worth the low price and I do not miss Microsoft Office.
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Does everything I need for much less $$ than that other Microsoft program.... , 2008-07-08
I recently switched to Mac and since I had been using Microsoft Office ever since I can remember, I thought I would just order it for my Mac as well. That is, until I saw an ad for iWork and was drawn to it by the much, much smaller price tag. I thought I would try it since it cost so much less than MS Office.
I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of this piece of software. It has excellent word processing, page layout, spreadsheet, and presentation software. iWork can even flawlessly import and open documents from MS Office, and it can also export to those formats so that I can share documents with my PC using co-workers without a problem.
I'm actually ordering a second Mac (an iMac to compliment the MacBook I already have) and will be sticking with iWork for it as well.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Excellent Alternative to Word, 2008-07-04
I've been a long time user of Word on my Mac and when I upgraded my laptop I decided to give iWork a try.
I need basic word processing, spreadsheet, and PowerPoint capabilities. iWork works beautifully. I especially like Keynote as a substitute for PowerPoint. iWork provides many useful templates in Keynote, Pages and Numbers. With iWork I can also open all the Office documents friends send me via e-mail.
So far I've experienced no problems or glitches with iWork unlike the many I encountered with Word on a Mac. Apple's backup to iWork is also much better than Microsoft's with Word.
Nice product!
8 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Solid Suite for the Non-Professional, 2008-07-03
This is a great suite of programs for those of us who don't necessarily need the full power of the Microsoft Office suite. It will be able to do nearly all of what you want it to do in a non-professional environment (read home or possibly small business) for a whole lot less money than MS Office will cost.
That's where this suite shines. For $79 or less ($69 currently on Amazon) you get 80% of the MS Office functionality plus famous Apple-brand style. It's infinitely better than the hack-job "NeoOffice" for Mac which is the free OpenOffice-based office suite that is nearly unusable due to a bad translation.
Pros:
-Pages is a fine little word processor for writing virtually anything you can think of. It's simple to use and flows well with the rest of the "Mac experience." If you just want to sit down and type a letter or a book, it's hard to beat. This is the Apple equivalent to Microsoft Word
-Numbers is a usable spreadsheat program that will do some basic number crunching and data manipulation. It's competent and works like most other Apple programs. This is the Apple equivalent to Microsoft Excel
-Keynote is the best application of the suite. It is a powerful presentation design program that is not only on par with, but superior to Microsoft Powerpoint, which it is aimed at. If you want an idea of what it can do, just watch any of Steve Job's keynote addresses to see a good presentation in action. He uses Keynote, too.
Cons:
-Generally speaking, if you are familiar with MS Office programs (as I am), you'll have a bear of a time migrating over to iWork. Apple has its own version of what is logical in the interface, and though I can't say if it's better or worse, it's definitely different and hard to navigate for an MS Office veteran. If you're new to such programs, though, it's probably more intuitive.
-Pages is a little light on features and flexibility. This offers a simpler user interface, but also means you lose a lot of power that the professional grade MS Word offers. It also has a lot of trouble importing anything but the most simplistic Word documents and doesn't appear to be compatible with Office 2008 for Mac yet (I'm not sure about Office 2007 for Windows, though).
-Numbers is the weakest program in the suite. It's not really usable in a standard office practice as it lacks so many features and capabilities that have been in Excel for generations. It's more-or-less a sort of placeholder until Apple decides it really wants to be in the Enterprise market. Few home users will bother learning to use a spreadsheet program of any type unless they have to. This is more of an afterthought.
-Keynote is the jewel of the set. It's only real weakness is that it will ruin you on Microsoft Powerpoint if you ever have to go back or have to export your presentation into Powerpoit format. That's the Achilles' Heel of Keynote is the lack of widespread use anywhere. Industry doesn't use it. Education doesn't use it. Heck, even hotels and conference rooms don't use it. You have to bring your own Mac if you really want to use it.
Overall, this is a great suite for the money, but can't really compete with its entrenched and much more mature Microsoft counterparts (except for Keynote). This is a must-have if you use your Mac for anything productive, especially if your budget is a bit tight.
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