Office for Mac or Pages & Numbers?

SaLoGo

I've just bought my first MacBook Pro. I use Word and Excel a lot and am unsure whether to buy Office for Mac or buy the 2 apps Pages and Numbers.

What would other users recommend?

Niowrtt

I suggest both - iWork (Pages, Numbers) are cheap and very nice to use. However the Apple apps really don't compare on features with Office (or indeed OpenOffice).

I use all depending on the task at hand: a simple document or something that needs to be 'pretty' is in iWork, anything complex in OpenOffice, and MS Office for compatibility with work.

SaLoGo

I'm not an 'avid' or 'hardcore' user. I do need something though as I have a template for my wedding invites saved on my old windows laptop as a word doc and my budget spreadsheet on excel. It does say I can import them into Pages & Numbers so may buy them

InsideInsurance

Personally use Office on our Macs. Since 2011 came out it has been a good option. The previous versions were terrible. My former client had the Home User Programme so managed to get it for £10 or so

Never used Apples own options but if you are not sharing with other OFfice users I suspect they will be fine.

Did used to use OpenOffice and subsequently NeoOffice when I first got a Mac but I found them a little crude in comparison to Office plus having to share complex presentations with PowerPoint users I found that advanced formatting didnt always survive

bertie1989

libreoffice is coming on leaps and bounds. Has compatibility with ms office formats and best of all its FREE

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bertie1989 wrote: »

libreoffice is coming on leaps and bounds. Has compatibility with ms office formats and best of all its FREE

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http://www.libreoffice.org/