a month with iwork

[beerman]

After a month of using iwork I am switching back to neooffice. I didn't really find any benefit to using iwork for my simple documents. The clincher was that iwork wants to save everything in it's own format, which is incompatible with 99.9999999% of everybody out there.

Unlike iLife I just didn't find any "killer" features.

Dave

[jdc]

do you mean pages? or numbers?

pages bites, tries to do too much

numbers, on the other hand is sweet -- for whatever reason it seems so much more intuitive than excel -- no, its not a 2 million cell spreadsheet master like excel, but for simple stuff its great

not sure if you are just missing the "export" functions, but all of the iWork apps can be exported to their Office equals...

[beerman]

ya, but I don't want to export every single time I need to save the file. Neooffice has it's own openoffice format but it doesn't force me to use it like iwork forces me to use the pages or numbers format.

[Ken Sp.]

Google Documents is a good alternative also.

[jdc]

[quote beerman]ya, but I don't want to export every single time I need to save the file. Neooffice has it's own openoffice format but it doesn't force me to use it like iwork forces me to use the pages or numbers format.
huh?

[blusubaru]

"a month with iwork" better than a month with noWork!

[jimbrady]

The templates and page-layout functionality of Pages put Neo/MS Office to shame. Same goes for Numbers.

If you need to share everything you create with others, then maybe I'd see the point, though it doesn't seem all that difficult to export.

Wanna sell your iWork discs?

[sekker]

I find I am using Pages more and more these days. Worked great to get out a chess club newsletter, and recently I started composing work letters on institutional letterhead.

Ironically, tho, I am finding that 10.5 did a BIG speed boost for word from office 2003. For simple documents, I do not have to wait to enter text like I did in 10.4