iWork '08 Family Pack | 
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Category: Software
List Price: £69.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 53
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Mac Os X Intel
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: MA791Z/A
Model: MA791Z/A
UPC: 885909244386
EAN: 0885909244386
ASIN: B000BX7H52
Release Date: August 31, 2007
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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IWORK Ae08 FAMILY PACK
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 iWork 2008 August 13, 2008
linuxnet (UK, London)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
..ermm , i was expecting bit more from Apple with this software. I know it`s cheap but even ... more features guys ! C`mon !
 Delicious alternative to that other office suite October 28, 2007
MM Turner (Birmingham, England)
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
What do you like?
If you want to have exactly the same applications that everyone else has, and don't mind how clunky or slow they are, then you get Microsoft Office.
If you want complete compatibility, but are somehow morally opposed to paying money for software, then you go with Open Office.
If you want very high -- but not necessarily complete -- compatibility, and you want a delightful, smooth and efficient set of applications, and you want to do presentations that leave the other applications stranded, then you choose iWork '08.
Actually, I already owned Microsoft Office, and I use it for compatibility. And I've installed OpenOffice for people: it's good software. But the other week I saw a presentation done on iWork's Keynote, and I was absolutely smitten. For the price of a reasonable Photoshop plugin, this application is amazing, with full cinematic effects that cannot be reproduced in PowerPoint.
Having bought iWork, I'm astonished at the sleek, beautiful interface, the speed of operation, the intuitive design, and the superb feature set. I haven't enjoyed using a word-processor or a spread-sheet like this for years.
That's it really. It imports the vast majority of things that Microsoft Office opens, and exports back seamlessly. It lets you know when there are unsupported features, and even informs you when fonts are missing -- something that Word signally fails to do.
Of course, there are lots of features that Office supports that iWork doesn't. Mailmerge, for example, and creating organigrams. On the other hand, for the price of Microsoft Office, you could buy FileMaker Pro and iWork, which, alongside the Mac's installed tools such as OmniGraffle, would give you vastly more functionality. Microsoft gives you Entourage as well, of course, but, since Entourage doesn't really work very well with Exchange Servers (less well than iCal and Mail, for example), this is hardly a disadvantage.
Pound for pound, iWork is vastly better value than Microsoft Office. I'll go out on a limb here and say it is better designed software, with a much clearer understanding of what most users want.
Of course, I'm not deleting MS Office. If you want compatibility, then only MS Office can really guarantee it. But for most Mac users, this is software at a price you can afford, delivered in a style that you desire.
Apple has done something I really wouldn't have believed: they have made office applications sexy again.
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