[quote name='Jesus_S_Preston']More Mac questioning.
So, is iWork, like, the equivalent of MS Office? How different is it? If I've pretty much exclusively used MS Office, is it worth just getting MS Office for Mac?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it is basically equivalent. this:
[quote name='gunm']OT, but if you're used to the MS Office environment, then iWork won't cut it. There's no excel equivalent built-in. I dunno, I don't like it personally.
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is not entirely true. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote all have export/import functions with MS Office files. Numbers is the Excel equivalent that gunm missed, unless there's some incompatibility I missed out on. I used Pages and Keynote for my last semester in undergrad and never ran into a problem sharing/exchanging with Windows people.
if you're taking notes with it, you'll get used to all the hotkeys and shortcuts with Pages fast. Keynote is very intuitive and has great templates and design options. I haven't had a whole lot of experience with numbers. Can't really compare it to MS Office on a detailed level, as they both worked fine for me. It was easy to slip into iWork, since they are similar in organization. There were less differences than I imagined...