IWork or Office:Mac

I just ordered a macbook air 13" and am quite excited to get it in 2 weeks. Have been looking up some reviews and was quite bummed to find out that it does not include iWork. Don't understand it since I'm used to office coming with windows.
Seeing as I need to pay to get it, what do you suggest I get? iWork or Office:mac?
I am leaning towards iWork since I quite like the features included in Keynote, and it'll come in handy since I do a lot of presentations at University.
Let me know what you think. Thanks!

Use what you are more comfortable with.
I am a a longtime user of MS Office, and I find iWork (I have both MS OfficeMac and iWork), a bit awkward at best, in comparison.
I detest the new "features" paradigm of Lion's document saving, and have refrained from even updating my copy of iWork since Lion's feature set became available.
iCloud's interactivity with iWork is squarely centered on the iOS version of iWork's apps, so you won't be missing much there.
As far as Office compatibility of iWork. It is there, so you don't have to worry too terribly much about document sharing. But still, you are going to be much more productive from day one with a product you are already used to using.

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I just purchased a MacBookPro after having a MacBook. I have ILife, IWorks and Office for Mac. How do I get those programs on to my MacBook Pro? I will still use my MacBook at work so I need those programs to remain on it as well.

I just purchased a MacBookPro after having a MacBook. I have ILife, IWorks and Office for Mac. How do I get those programs on to my MacBook Pro? I will still use my MacBook at work so I need those programs to remain on it as well.

You need a Firewire cable to run between the two Macs. Using Utility>Migration Assistant running on your new MacBook Pro, transfer what you want (with all the preferences and such) from your MacBook to your MBP. Here's more info from Apple.
You might have an issue with the Serial number for Office, but hopefully you have that around.
Hope this helps.

Iwork or Office for Mac

Hi everyone,
I am a soon to be new macbook owner and would like a bit of advice on which word processing software to purchase. Being a student i would need to use the essentials such as word, powerpoint excel etc. I have read on here about the troubles of office, esp lack of VBA on excel and the freezing up problems. However all the desktops at home are on XP and i would assume it would be easier to run my mac with Office also even though iwork can import/export word documents, powerpoints and spreadsheets etc. Would just like to know everyone's opinion before committing to either one.
Also just a bit off topic the new macbook air doesn't come with a built in cd rom right? I was initially going to buy the MBA back after reading the features of it i've just about set my decision on getting a macbook with 2.4GHz processor mainly on the basis of not having too pay an extra $140 to get the usb driver to read cd and dvd. Would that be a good move or would apple bring out a version of the MBA with the optical drive anytime soon

Besides choosing between iWork and Office, there are other options introduced in this +Windows on a Mac+ video tutorial:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#tutorial=windows
...and here are links to the three software products mentioned there:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
Also, NeoOffice for Mac handles most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files including most Excel VBA macros:
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
gnuey wrote:
"the new macbook air doesn't come with a built in cd rom right?"
True.
gnuey wrote:
"would apple bring out a version of the MBA with the optical drive anytime soon?"
I doubt it. The whole point of the Air is to reduce size and weight and differentiate from the MacBook.

Iworks or office for mac?

iworks or office for mac? which is better choice?

Depends what it is you want to do. For normal home/small-office tasks iWorks is more than adequate and substantially cheaper than Office, esp if you download it from the AppStore. There are excellent free alternatives as well, such as OpenOffice and NeoOffice.
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.neooffice.org/

IWork Compatibility with Mac/iPad/PC

I have a MacBook Pro and iPad 2 for home use and PC at work (grr). I'd like to buy iWork bc it's compatible with both my Mac/iPad. My question is will I be able to edit Word/Excel docs that originated from my work PC in iWork on my home computer and view/edit them on my work PC? I do not have complicated documents or tables, but rather basic Word documents and Excel spreadhseets that serve as databases.

Yes. On your computer, instead of clicking the document open, drag it onto the pages app in your dock and the word document will automatically be converted to a pages document. On the iPad, any document you open will have a little button in the corner that looks like a share button. The button actually lets you open the document in any document editing app - including pages. On the Mac, you have the option to save all the documents in a microsoft office compatible (but do not forget to select the button each time). Also, if you put it on iCloud.com, you can download the file as a .pages, .doc, or.pdf. On the iPad, the documents are automatically saved to iCloud and can be accessed at iCloud.com from a Mac or PC. If you email it from the iPad, it can be emailed as iWork, Microsoft office, or PDF.

Installing Microsoft Office:mac 2004 Student and Teacher Edition

I am trying to install Microsoft Office:mac 2004 student and teacher edition.
I don't know how to achieve this.
I have tried the Office Setup Assistant but it says "You can't open the application "Office Setup Assistant" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.
So, I assume I have to do the "Drag the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to your hard disk to install all Office components" option.
Being very new to iMac, my question is, "Where exactly do I drag it to? Which icon along the bottom or should it go somewhere else?
Any help would be great
Thanks

It will not work with Mountain Lion. You need Office 2011 for OS X.
Office 2004 and Other Applications Don't Work in Lion/Mountain Lion
If you have Office 2004 which is a PPC-only suite, it will not work in Lion/Mountain Lion. You need to upgrade to Office 2011 - Mactopia - or you can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion/Mountain Lion.
You may want to consider as well:
These two suites are similar to Libre Office but not as current or as well-supported:
NeoOffice
Open Office
And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:
Pages - word processing and layout
Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.
As for other software, any PPC-based software will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion because Rosetta is no longer part of OS X. You will need to upgrade to Intel versions of the software.
(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.)

Office Mac Compatibility With Lion

I'm trying to decide iWork vs Office for school and I have decided I need Office so the file will look the same for someone else. I was wondering if Office supported autosave and other lion features.
Also I was wondering if anyone thinks iWork will work for me.

Office for Mac does not yet support Autosaave & Versions,
iWork will work but get used to saving then exporting the document to a format compatible with MS Office.
Open Office will also open and save MS Office documents and is free.

Office:Mac '08 Crash in Word after adding pictures

I have documents that are text and photos - some pdf and some jpeg. I have been using the same template for 2 years.
All of a sudden, I can edit the text and save the document normally, but if I add a PDF, the next time I try to save the document, Office:Mac crashes.
I have reinstalled Office:Mac and my computer is updated. Anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

Just reinstall Office. Use the uninstaller in the MS Office folder to remove the corrupt preference files that are creating the crashes. And, iMacRDQ has the right idea. Pages is a much better app. Actually, the whole iWork suite is much better than MS Office.
A little note about repairing permissions: It is only applicable for Apple software and not for third party stuff, especially anything made by 'that other company'.

Should i continue with Pages or get Office Mac 2011? Help please...

I am new to the Mac world and have purchased Pages. I have found i cannot make documents in web layout or with only part of the document in columns like in Word 2007 on PC. I want to use the Apple software, not Windows if possible so please correct me if there is a way to do what i would like. If not should i get Office for Mac or wait for a new version of iWork. I do not want to use free software. My school uses both PC's & Mac. School's mac's use both iWork and Office although Office is preferred. I can cope with exporting in Pages if my problems are easily fixed.
Thanks
Rory

Thanks Kenneth that is a cool feature. but now i'll show you the problem with the columns.
Here i have just copied part of a wikipedia article as an example and pasted into Pages.
Now i select the second paragraph
Go to Columns
Then when i select two columns it puts the entire page in two columns not the selected area.
In Word on PC you can have columns in the selected area without the whole dowcument being in columns.

Office Mac v. X (2004?) and late 2009 mini mac OS 10.6.8

I have Office mac v. X (2004 I believe.) I just need it for word processing. I am writer. All my writing projects are on my old G4, plan to transfer files and want to stay in synch with them etc. Nothing fancy needed.
I recently purchased a late 2009 3.1 mini mac OS 10.6.8. Don't have the $$$ to purchase new version of Windows for Mac software.
If I install the 2004 software are there any technical issues I need to be aware of?

Office 2004 will run in Snow Leopard because Snow Leopard still supports Rosetta. But there will be compatibility issues. See alternatives from below.
Office 2004 and Other Applications Don't Work in Lion/Mountain Lion
If you have Office 2004 which is a PPC-only suite, it will not work in Lion/Mountain Lion. You need to upgrade to Office 2011 - Mactopia - or you can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion/Mountain Lion.
You may want to consider as well:
These two suites are similar to Libre Office but not as current or as well-supported:
NeoOffice
Open Office
And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:
Pages - word processing and layout
Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.
As for other software, any PPC-based software will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion because Rosetta is no longer part of OS X. You will need to upgrade to Intel versions of the software.
(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.)

I have Office:mac 2004 and it won't download on my new MacBook Air. Is it too old? It says PowerPC applications are no longer accepted.

I have old Office:Mac 2004 Student and Teacher Edition from my previous MacBook and it won't download onto my new MacBook Air via external optical drive and says that PowerPC applications are no longer supported. Am I stuck bying the newer version or is there a way around the software issue so I don't have to spend more money. Thanks for your help.
Kevin

You can purchase Offce 2011 from MacMall for about $99 so it is well worth the money. As said in a previous post by Kappy, you can try one of the free office suites available. They can read Office files and can save documents in Office format. Apple's iWork is also a good ffice suite afavilable from the App Store by download. I have used Open Office,Libre Office and Neo Office and have liked each one of them. Neo Office has the closest match to Apple operating systems - it just feels like an Apple program. Open Office and Libre Office are also very good choices and dont have much of a learning curve at all.

What order do I install airport, iLife, iWork, MS Office, & do Migration

I have an iMac and just bought a MacBook Pro. I used the setup assistant on the MacBook Pro and created a user account, but did not setup anything else (internet, email, etc -- will do later). The user account name & password is different from my iMac -- although I am the same user for both. I didn't know if the same name on each was a big deal so I opted for two different names.
I purchased iWork and iLife for my iMac.
I purchased the following for the MacBook Pro : Airport Extreme Base Station (and for the iMac also, obviously), iWork, MS Office (already have another license of MS Office on my iMac).
I also plan to use the migration assistant to copy information from my iMac to my MacBook Pro.
Here's the deal, in what order do I "do" all of this:
A. Install Airport Extreme Base Station for iMac and MacBook Pro
B. Use Migration Assistant to copy information from iMac to MacBook Pro
C. Install iWork on MacBook Pro
D. Install MS Office on MacBook Pro
E. Install iLife on iMac
F. Install iWork on iMac
Thanks for the info ...
MacBook Pro

I second Peter's recommendation not to use Migration Assistant to transfer from a PPC machine to an Intel Mac.
Migration Assistant can carry over things hidden away in your Library, for example, that can cause stability problems and that may well be responsible for some of the heat complaints.
It's more work but safer to set up the MBP from scratch and to install only applications that you've checked as compatible with the MBP. Then you can copy over your data files for those applications from the PPC computer.
I didn't use Migration Assistant and installed only the programs that I really need, and which are compatible. My MBP has been rock solid; not a single system panic, freeze or crash since March 30. And only one application crash (an OCR program that I configured wrongly after installation) that's never been repeated.
And for what it's worth, I don't have heat complaints, either.

Iwork or office?

I will be making the purchase of a MBP 13" 2.26GHz by the end of the summer in order to use next year for university. In previous years, I have used Word, Excel, and Powerpoint extensively, and will continue to do so. My question is whether I should purchase iwork or office 2008, or both?

I'll pipe in too as a university lecturer -- get Office for Mac 2008 and save yourself the woes of conversions and formatting problems with iWork 09. Everything in Office for Mac is compatible with the windows using world -- and you will be happy with Excel and its statistical abilities, which are absent (for the most part) in Numbers.
iWork is elegant looking software. There is a lot it doesn't do. And it is not fully compatible with the Windows world. With today's MS Office for mac service pak 2 update, everything in Office just works. And it works faster than Pages.
Ignore all the posts you are going to see about people recommending Open Office and Neo Office and all that other open source free junk. It will be insufficient for your college work and will cause no end of problems when you try to download programs from Blackboard or whatever program your school will use to distribute and upload your assignments and documents.
Get MS Office and you will be good to go for school.
Don't get both -- you will soon have a harddrive full of non-compatible files, some in Word, some in Pages, and you'll have both programs opening and giving you error messages -- the last thing you want when you are sitting in your professors office and he's asking you to print off your paper already cause he has to run in a few minutes.

How do u run office mac on the new imac

error message says cnnont open application microsoft word because power pc applications are no longer supported how do i run office mac on the new imac

Office 2004 probably was the best MS Office ever, works fine on PPC machines, badly enough on intel machines, unusable in Lion.
Office 2008 was a step back, runs badly on PPC machines, not very good for newer, Intel macs either.
Office 2011 seems the only rational solution for newer macs running SL and Lion.
There are free and good solutions, OpenOffice, LibreOffice and NeoOffice, all based on OO language. Apple’s iWork also offers a good solution, may be a little problematic if you currently exchange files with Windows users, mainly if you must keep the original format, including inserted data.
Summing up:
- if you frequently / currently exchange data with Windows users, MS Office is the best solution from reasons of comfort
- if not, any free office quoted above makes its job fairly well
- iWork is also good, and smoothly integrated with Mac OS X, of course
If you mainly need word processing, Mellel and / or Nisus are (very) good alternatives, may be tested for 30 days, then decide.
The offer is, as you may see, rich, richer than in Windows, but this also means, as the French say, l’embarras du choix, difficulty of choosing something!

Microsoft Office:Mac 2004 under Yosemite

I know it's very (very) old, but I've been happily running Microsoft Office:Mac 2004 under Snow Leopard and am finally in a position to upgrade to Yosemite. I've found workarounds for all my other important legacy software but was wondering if it's even remotely possible to run Word:Mac 2004 and Excel:Mac 2004 under the new OS?

Office 2004 and Other Applications Don't Work
If you have Office 2004 which is a PPC-only suite, it will not work post-Snow Leopard. You need to upgrade to Office 2011 - Mactopia - or you can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion/Mountain Lion.
These two suites are similar to Libre Office:
NeoOffice - $30.00
Open Office
And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:
Pages - word processing and layout
Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.
As for other software, any PPC-based software will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion because Rosetta is no longer part of OS X. You will need to upgrade to Intel versions of the software.
(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.)

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