Iwork or microsfot office student

I am currently a pc user and i want to buy a mac. This means all my current work is done in word and excel. Also all of the computers at my university and my family are pc's.
From what i have read on the site and looking at ratings for them iwork is far superior than office which i have accepted (i think!).
My main issue is compatibility. Is possible to use iwork and be able to open the file easily on a pc? if this is possible, is it simple? and how?
Or, am i better to buy office as it is what i know and everything around me is pc! (scary thought for some i'm sure :D) Also i can then apply for the update version (2008) for only £15 (UK).

If you need to rely on compatibility between Windows users using Office, then I would not recommend iWork.

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I have new MacBook Pro. Can I load ms office (student) 2011

I have a new MacBook Pro. Will I be able to load ms office (student) without problem? I want to use word and PowerPoint

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Of course. Office 2008 and 2011 are supported in OS X Mavericks, so you can use Office without any problem.
You can purchase Office for Mac from the Microsoft website > http://www.microsoft.com/mac It's easy to install.
Apart from Microsoft Office, you have other apps you may consider, like Apple iWork (Numbers, Keynote and Pages) and LibreOffice, free and open-source. I recommend you to give it a try first

IWorks 09 or Office?

just switched to macbook pro. wondering which to get. both seem attracting. i'm a Degree student. (my lecturers might not be using apple computers)

I'm failing to comprehend why TheSmokeMonster is saying that you should get iWork if you want "all the bells and whistles of what office does." That doesn't make much sense.
iWork will open Office documents, and the latest versions of the iWork apps do a pretty good job with that. However, iWork is not Office, and as such, will not open Office docs flawlessly in all cases. If you need to work with a lot of Office documents that use lots of "bells and whistles", you may be better off getting Office. (Although it should be noted that even Office for Mac won't flawlessly open all docs made by Office for Windows, mostly due to things like fonts that are common on Windows and not present by default on Macs.)
On the other hand, if compatibility with Office is not your top concern, and you like the way Apple software works, you may find iWork more to your liking. I personally do not like recent versions of MS Word in the slightest, but I find Pages very intuitive and pleasant to use.
And certainly, if you "want to just type words on a page and spell check and whatnot," then you do not need Office, as TheSmokeMonster suggests, and should go for the cheapest option, which is iWork.

IWork vs Microsoft Office For Mac

I am a university student and just bought the MBP 2.53 and i was curious of which i should get. iWork 08 or Office for Mac. Any opinoins?

I have several Macs in my household and because I have a 13 yr old daughter with a MacBook, I purchased iWork. I also own Mac Office which I upgraded to 2008 the week it came out.
I thought that I could stop using MS Office for my work-related stuff, but after using iWork for a while, I went back to MS Office 2008. The formatting conversion in iWork is not reliable. More importantly, If you work in the real world and have to share files with colleagues, Office rules, unfortunately. It's just not worth the incompatibility hassles to use iWork instead of Office.
Even my daughter has given up on iWork because of compatibility issues with her school which has only PC's available to students. This is going to change next year when she starts high school at a private Catholic school. This school uses Macs, but they still require MS Office.
For a single user looking to get a nice work package affordably, I think that iWork is a great value and much nicer to use than Office. But that's about it until iWork develops further into a real business package.
BTW, if you are a student or have a student in your household, I suggest that you check out the steep software discounts for students at www.academicsuperstore.com. You can purchase the student version of MS Mac Office 2008 for $159, and it includes licenses for 3 computers! The student version is the same as the full retail version except that MS does not allow upgrades on the student version to the next generation of Office, whenever that becomes available. Other than that, it's the same product that you can spend $350 for a single-user license.
Cheers.
Bud
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IWorks or Microsoft Office

Hi everyone.
I'm just wondering which is better iWork or Microsoft Office??
I'm a Science student, so I mainly type essays & do presentations. I submit work to my lecturers & tutors (they use microsoft office) & share with friends.
I also teach in a school, so my notes & presentations need to be opened on the school computer (runs microsoft office).
Is all the changing formats in iWork to risky for me?? I need to be 100% sure my documents open in the class I teach & that they open for my lecturers & tutors as the work I submit is part of my exam marks.
Thanks.

Even Microsoft Office for Mac may not be 100% since it's most likely the ones you would share documents with use PCs. Differences still tend to arise in fonts & spacing. Fonts with the same name may not be the same font.

My CD/DVD drive reads regular CDs/DVDs but installation DVDs such as iWork's and office for Mac it spits it out after trying to read it. Please help!!!

For some reason when I insert installation discs for programs like iWork's and office for Mac the drive does not read the disc. I tried movies and music and they worked perfectly. I was able to fix the problem with the iWork's disc by creating a disc image in another drive, I have yet to do this with the Office for Mac but I would like to know what could be the reason for this problem. Any help is appreciated.

@ RabidPineappler and Froggiefo20...
I forgot that I have an extended AppleCare Protection Plan, I contacted Apple today (in Sydney) and they took me through step by step. I tried inserting my OS X disc and it accepted it, I tried putting in a commercial DVD (Star Wars) and it started playing. I then tried putting in a commercial CD and it wouldn't work through iTunes. It made incredibly sick whirring noises and then eventually (approx 5 minutes later) appearred on my desktop, but iTunes7 would not recognise the disc.
Then he suggested I log in under another username which I did... Then my drive prompty died. It does not accept any disc now. He said that I need to have my iBook seen to by a technician. Since I have the extended warranty, my repair shouldn't cost me anything (the extended warranty was ovver $400, so it better not cost anything), so I can't give you an indication as to what you will be up for.
You do not need o take your iBook to the place where you bought it, but ensure you have your sales receipt.
Hope I helped.
Clairbear

I've uninstalled Office Student 2013, but how do re-install it?

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if you're unable to "transfer" your Office installation/license onto your new PC, by using your MS account,
www.office.com/myaccount
this article may help (you may need to use telephone activation, and may need to speak to MS Customer Service & Support)
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-office_install/uninstallingtransferring-office-2013-homestudent/d25b7e9b-3e9f-4659-8635-b1cb0d6ab4a1
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My Iwork and my Office don't open PC Office documents!

Hello everyone! I've got a degree in computer science, but I'm new to mac. I've come from the pc.
I've got a extrange problem in my macbook.I've been surfing to the internet for a solution during 1 hour. Also I've phone apple care suport during 45 minutes and I still don't have the solution. I'm kind of desesperate.
The problem is that Iwork (and also Office for Mac) just don't open my PC Office files (any of them), not xls, doc, ppt... I can open them in the PC, not in the mac.
It just appears an "invalid file" error. The file never opens.
If my Mac it's not going to be able to open MS PC Office documents it's just going to be a nice paperweight, cause my job requieres those files. Got thousands of them, and I recieve daily.
To put all my PC office file to my macbook I used an external USB hard drive. I've read on the internet that sometimes the "doc" document gets corrupted when it's stored in the USB HD. I used it right (removing saftely), so I think that it's not this, but I've got nothing more... even apple support don't know nothing.
I like my notebook, but I've to solve this problem. If it's not solved I'll have to return again to €!$$?? windows and I will have lost a lot of money.
Thanks everyone.

I've been looking into it and it seems problem is not only with .doc and .xls documents.
For some reason, many files of my folder "documents" (and also all the "sub"folders) are, in a way or other, corrupted.
I've tried 2 times to put all this information from windows (in win files are not corrupted, I've checked it) to my USB external HD and then I put them into my mac. During this process files become corrupted!
And it's so strange, because I've copied more files from my pc to my mac this way and seem they're working right. Anyway now I'm trying with diferent file systems and see what I get.
So it's not problem with pages o office mac, it's problem of the MAC OS X or my external hard drive.

I have both Iwork and Microsoft Office (had to have it for school) on my macbook pro. Can I uninstall Iwork from my computer and reinstall it at a later date from the disc.

I have both Iwork and Microsft Office (had to have it for school) on my Macbook Pro. Can I uninstall Iwork on my computer and re install it at a later date from the disc, or was it a one time install

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Can I uninstall Iwork on my computer and re install it at a later date from the disc
yes.

Easiest way to send multiple iWork attachments as Office documents

My grandmother just switched from a PC to a Mac, and I suggested that she use iWork instead of Office for Mac. Now she is getting used to iWork, but all of the people that she works with use Office.
When she wants to send multiple documents, I told her that she has to open each one and got to Share => Export -> Word and save them to her desktop. After that she needs to attach each one to the email.
As I'm telling her this, I think to myself "There has to be a better way..."
So, I come here to ask: Is there a better way? Is there some way to make Mail convert these .pages documents into .docx, .keynote into .pptx, etc.? I always thought that's what "Send Windows Friendly Attachments" did, but I have found out that
it does something totally different.

There is no easy way to convert iWork documents to Office and then send them via email. In short, your options are as follows:
In Pages, don't save as .pages files, but rather as .docx files. To do this, your grandmother will have to use "save as" every time she saves the file, because "save" will simply save a .pages file. You cannot set the default file format
in Pages to be a .docx file.
Continue as she is doing now, and convert each file individually from .pages to .docx when she needs to send it to someone.
Buy a legal copy of Office:Mac.
If your grandmother works with people who use Office, the best solution is for her to use Office:Mac. Pages can open Word documents, and it can save as a Word document as well, but this conversion is limited. If the documents have a lot of formatting, they
are likely to lose the formatting in the conversion. If she receives Word documents with macros, she will not be able to use or modify the macros. Keynote to PowerPoint and Numbers to Excel have similar issues. We'll leave aside that it sounds like you have
violated the
EULA for iWork in associating someone else's Apple ID with your grandmother's new Mac.
"Send Windows-Friendly Attachments" does not convert files from one type to another, and you probably don't want Apple Mail (or any other application) performing such a conversion without telling you about it. It simply changes the encoding that
it uses for sending the files via email.
There is no method to batch-convert files from Pages to Word. Pages' AppleScript and Automator dictionaries don't have commands for such a conversion.

Apple works or iwork vs. microsoft office for mac

I am a first-time mac user and unfortunately, did not have apple works loaded onto my imac. I did have a beta version of office for mac with which I am familiar. My question, since I was unable to trial apple works or iwork, is whether I should go with office for mac or apple works/iwork? My basic needs are word processing/home use. Hope someone can help me out as I need to purchase something.

My question, since I was unable to trial
apple works or iwork, is whether I should go with
office for mac or apple works/iwork? My basic needs
are word processing/home use. Hope someone can help
me out as I need to purchase something.
AppleWorks and iWork are both less expensive than MS Office.
You should have trial versions of both iWork and MS Office on your iMac, according to this software list from the specifications page:
iLife ’06 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand),
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive,
iWork (30-day trial),
Quicken 2006 for Macintosh,
Big Bang Board Games,
Comic Life,
Omni Outliner, and
Apple Hardware Test
Although my personal preference is AppleWorks, I'd hesitate to recommend it in your case. Appleworks is not, and likely never will be native to the intel OS X environment, and runs through Rosetta on the new machines. Although it runs well, and is a viable choice for anyone currently using it, AppleWorks is at the end of its development cycle. Unless you need its spreadsheet and database capabilities, you're probably better off looking at Pages in iWork.
Pages is a competent wp and page layout application, and for some long term users of AppleWorks, has become their favourite for this purpose. Pages includes some basic spreadsheet functions in inserted tables.
Office is an 'entrepreneur' level suite of applications, and as such contains a larger feature set in each application than either iWork or AppleWorks. But given your stated needs, it's probably a bigger hammer than you need, and one with a longer and steeper learning curve than you'd want. If you NEED to share files with Windows/MS Office users, there are a couple of free alternatives—OpenOffice.org, which requires you to install X11, Apple's Xwindow implementation, and NeoOffice, which runs in Java, which you will already have installed.
Others may have different recommendations.
Regards,
Barry

Can I install iwork and microsoft office in the same computer?

Can I install iwork and microsoft office in the same computer?

Yes, you can. I have both Microsoft Office and Apple iWork on my computer, and everything works just fine.
Charlie

Dynamicaly insert data on documents (iWork or Mac Office)

Hi!
I am not sure if there is any method that could be possible doint what I am looking for, in windows envoirment development I can have my app to open a word document and inject data on certain fields.
I currently have a Filemaker Pro 12 app that generates documents with data pushed from database, but those document layouts are background PDFs. What I am looking for is that I could call iWork (Page or Numbers) or Mac Office (Word or Excel) and inject data there.
I think the route will be Office, since late iWork Numbers and Pages version its crap because Apple now even cuted the AppleScript options to work with.
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I am looking for a good starting (or best approach) point or quit and let this work at it is.
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iWork is pre-installed on all Macs and if, by chance, your computer doesn't have it you can download the demo from Apple's web site. The demo is the full version limited only by being usable for 30 days. You can buy a license online and serialize the demo version getting exactly what you'd get if you had the disc.
I work in academia and mostly use iWork. The documents that I pass on to my students and colleagues as well as the documents that I receive from my students and colleagues are almost always perfectly translated from Office by Pages. There have only been a few rare exceptions where a document I've received won't translate well. While I've been testing Pages since it was first released I've also been testing NeoOffice and the documents Pages cannot read NeoOffice has. NeoOffice is a freeware Office clone. In my testing I've also learned what to avoid so that my Pages documents will properly export to Office. Again, NeoOffice has been invaluable. I do have Office on my computer, though if I were required to pay for it I'd not have bothered. NeoOffice is good enough mostly.
So, could you get by with iWork? Yes. Should you? Since you are a student you are eligible for the Student/Home version of Office which runs about $130, not quite twice as much as iWork. If on the whole, your work will be done in Word for academic style papers, I think the answer is yes - just be sure to download either NeoOffice or OpenOffice so you can learn what not to do. If you'll also be doing presentations, you'll find that the compatibility between Keynote and PowerPoint is disappointing. Your Keynote presentations will export and PowerPoint presentations will load into Keynote. The problem is your Keynote presentations will lose something in the translation. If you'll be using Excel – buy Office.

Iwork or microsoft office?

At work all my colleagues use office and all my docs are office too. Just bought an Imac 20 and wondering whether to buy iwork or office. Will each one open the other's documents correctly? If not, I'll have to buy office, although I've read some bad reviews about the mac version. Any advice?
Thanks.

Hey!
I opted to go with MS Office as my wife needed to open Word/PPt docs etc for Degree course she's undertaking.Thought it was sensible as most if not all her research will probably be Windows based media.Not sure if iWork is compatible to be honest.
If you decide to use MS Office,this is MS web page you might be interested in...
Software4students
I purchased the home edition from here and received 2 disks in the post about 3-4 days later.Save you some money(student or kids in any stage of Education eligible).
Cheers,
John

A question about iwork and microsoft office

what's the different between I download iwork on app stores and buy iwork software?
and one more question about Pages in iwork is that can Microsoft office word open the document create by Pages ?
Thanks.

Sandy.zuoxy wrote:
what's the different between I download iwork on app stores and buy iwork software?
They're the same.
Sandy.zuoxy wrote:
and one more question about Pages in iwork is that can Microsoft office word open the document create by Pages ?
Yes, especially if you save the document in Word format.
You can also save it in PDF and a simple text file (but the layout could be modified if you open it in Office).

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