Office or iWork

Hey,
I am a long time Windows user and I am about tired of Windows and all the hassles the come along with it, namely viruses. So, I am getting ready to switch over to a 15" MacBook Pro. I am going to be a Junior in high school next year, so I am going to be writing a lot of reports and stuff like that. I am already familiar with Microsoft Office and that is what we use at school. But, I want to know if iWork is better. I have heard good and bad things about iWork and Office:Mac and I understand that each of them has their own pros and cons. So I want to know what you guys think.
Thanks, Travis.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) 15" 2.33 Ghz 120 GB

I teach at both the high school and college level so I can give you the definitive answer - there is no definitive answer. I keep both Office and iWork on my personal and work computers because I find both valuable.
I dislike Word and I've disliked it since I first used it - version 3 was my introduction. Like all Microsoft products it suffers from the fatal flaw of thinking it knows what I want and does its best to help me even when I don't want help. And then when I do want help, its help system is imminently unhelpful. Of course what I want is always buried three dialogs deep in the most unintuitive place imaginable. Still, I cannot do without Word because both institutions in which I teach have settled on it as the 'gold standard' and we are all expected to use it. (That means that we all use what we want and then translate it into Word when we have to collaborate
Pages became my personal gold standard a week after I got it. At first I was just trying to see if it could replace Word in my day to day activities. The answer quickly made itself known. Yes. I found that I could translate most documents back and forth without issue. Note that I said most. On occasion I found a Word document that would choke Pages and a Pages document that didn't translate well into Word. But both were rare.
So what should you do? Download Neo Office and take it for a spin. It is free and I'm betting you'll find it fulfills all your Office needs, should you need them. I think an iWork demo comes pre-installed on all Macs, not just the consumer models. So give it a look see - you get 30 days before you have to register.

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