![]() 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. *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). Like many other Macintosh users, I downloaded the iWorks '08 trial and promptly purchased it.
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