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http://live.pirillo.com - Tonight's first phone call had me bobbing my head to my ring tone. The caller says they are thinking of switching to Mac as their primary machine. They are familiar with Open Office, and have heard the Microsoft Office for the Mac... and that it's not very good. He wonders if there is a good, solid application for word processing for the Mac.

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  • I strongly disagree that iWork and NeoOffice are better than Office 2008. Sure, Keynote is a million times better than Powerpoint, but Excel is much better than Numbers, and Word is better than Pages. I'm a student, and I often have to write scientific papers, and for that Pages and Numbers are a pain. Excel and Word is a lot more accustomed for advanced users, while iWork is more for the general user. NeoOffice always crashes on my mac.

    Also, the language support is best on Office 2008.

  • iWork is the best

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  • iWork is kewl, but I'm not a big iWork user. Also the thing is, I can't choose doc or docx, same with xls, ppt, yeah... then I have to go to File, Save, or red light, Save, and rename the file every time.

    OpenOffice is free and it's awesome but it would be nice if they could make it look like a Mac app.

    Microsoft Office 2008 right now would be the true best office suite for Mac if you can afford it. It's more like the Windows version which I have, and it's more like a Mac Office program.

  • @chrypton1 Instead of NeoOffice use OpenOffice. NeoOffice is very poor and has more problems than OpenOffice.

    And OpenOffice is better looking.

    I agree that I like Office 2008 (And I think 2011, I didn't get to really use 2011) better than iWork. iWork is cheaper but I prefer MS Office.

  • iWork 09 is great!!! but it doesn't compares to MS Excel.

  • that sucks get office 08 i think that would be cheaper

  • yeah!! I've got Iwork on my Macbok pro and I was simply disappointed. Now I have to work with pages which makes me go *RAE%R2r`!. The spellcheck in iwork is shi*. But since I have to write in three languages it is neccessary for me to either buy myself office 08 mac or downgrade to my IBM 233mhz previous laptop. - I only have windows 2000, which doesn't work on macs. (No, I hate Parallels).

  • There is no alternative for MSOffice in my case. MS Access is the reason ;-(

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