Is there anything I would need Microsoft Office for if I have iWork?

I am looking at different configurations for a new Apple Laptop for University. My school uses Microsoft Office but I was reading that iWork is compatible with Office. I have Office 2004 on my old computer and could just transfer it over if I need some version of Office to have iWork be fully compatible with all Office documents and presentations. Do I need to have some version of Office for iWork to be fully compatible with my school documents? Are there any reasons to purchase the newest version of Microsoft Office?

I respect you. But for college uses and corporate uses I would never recommend using iWork over Office. Office is the defacto suite of applications for those working environments for too many reasons. I spent one career in academia and another in business. I'm comfortable with that claim.
iWork is a decent suite for the home user or primary/secondary school user and anyone not required to do anything iWork is simply not able to do or cannot do properly. But it's no match for Office. Not by a long shot.

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BobTheFisherman wrote:
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What needs to be done to regain my Microsoft Office for Mac suite that I lost when I installed Mac os 10.7.3 Lion upgrade?

boyfromoz wrote:
Shootist007 wrote:
Or you could just wipe out Lion and restalled Snow Leopard. Then when you are in the market for a new computer, desktop of notebook, buy something other then Apple.
why would you say things like that here? if you are a windows one then stay there. but you are not polite or helpful and if can't use Apple i wonder why you would come here to tell all about your sad story. I don't understand that it has nothing to do with question asked.
I own, or should I say have owned, several Apple products. Including a new MBP.
I also use Windows.
I will say anything I like in an effort to help people overcome problems they are having with Mac's and computers in general.
Being a Apple Fanboy is not required for membership on this forum or trying to help other Mac users.
And just how is suggesting to remove Lion and to go back to Snow Leopard not helping the OP in his quest to make his already owned and paid for MS Office software work? If it is isn't broken stop trying to fix it. Snow Leopard is a fine OS. Lion is still in Beta, only Apple hasn't told anyone. And yes I run Lion on my new MBP but I also have a partition with Snow Leopard on it.
Thank you and have a great day.

Is there anyway i can get Microsoft Office on this MacBook Pro i just purchased? 13.3" MB PRO/2.6/8GB/256FLASH/IRIS/RTN

is there anyway i can get Microsoft Office on this MacBook Pro i just purchased? 13.3" MB PRO/2.6/8GB/256FLASH/IRIS/RTN

I'm not entirely sure I understand the question -- but the usual way would be to buy and download either directly from Microsoft or a Microsoft retailer. http://www.microsoft.com/mac
One thing to consider is that it looks likely that Microsoft will finally update Office for Mac 2011 sometime next year. That may make the Office 365 option where you pay by the month/year something to consider (if you wouldn't otherwise) at least until the update is issued.
Another option is http://www.libreoffice.org which is free, very capable, and quite compatible with Microsoft Office files. It's not perfect but it's good and may do the job depending on your needs.

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You do realise that wiping the disk means that everything on the disk is erased. Everything. Photos, music, emails, ...
So the first piece of advice is to make sure you have a back up of everything.
You need the OS disk to reintsall the operating system. You will use that disk first to erase the drive, then to reinstall the OS.
Here's the link for the US. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
As for MS Office, you will need the original disk that it came on to reinstall it.

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Allan

Excuse somebody can tell me if I had Pages and Keynote I need Microsoft Office too?

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You only need Microsoft Office if you plan to hone your life skills on it as nearly 95% of businesses use it.
However there is a Pages and Keynote version for OS X (sold seperatly), but there is the free LibreOffice suit which is extremely popular amongst Mac users as there is a Windows and Linux versions too, the files are cross compatible and they open/write Office format also.
https://www.libreoffice.org/
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They also have a limited, free version.

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As for other files like images (JPG) and music (MP3) both platforms read these type files without any type of conversion.
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