Iwork Or Office For Mac

IWork vs Microsoft Office: The Great Debate by Aug 17, 2007 - 8:53 AM CST. qi:060 Microsoft Office for Mac is getting a bit long in the tooth, and the new version isn’t likely to show up until 2008. So perhaps that is why we all got a little too excited about iWork’08, which made its debut earlier this month. I ended up buying a copy, just to try it out. Judi Sohn, over on Web Worker Daily did the same and decided to use the productivity suite exclusively for a week., “Pages blazes on an Intel Mac compared to Word 2004,” and she gives it a thumbs up. She’s not so kind to Numbers spreadsheet application in her mammoth review. Viswakarma I have been working with iWork ’08 Trial, to understand the paradigm behind Numbers.

Numbers has more to it than is obvious when one looks at it from a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet point of view. It is almost like a set of interlinked tables in Relational Database with all of the tables visible on a single canvas, at the same time.

One of the more fascinating aspects of Numbers, when compared to Relational Database, is that each table is a mini-spreadsheet. Once people understand the paradigm behind Numbers, they will find out that it is a “killer” application combining the paradigms of a spreadsheet and a relational database, in a use-friendly application development environment. Viswakarma The Numbers paradigm of is that of a single canvas, where multiple tables (mini-spreadsheets) are located side by side, is much better than the Microsoft Excel paradigm where a spreadsheet page is a large table with multiple tables are tacked on top of each other. Further, in Numbers each mini-spreadsheet can be assigned a different user-focussed function and format to make its function explicit, and tie these mini-spreadsheets together, to be more like the various tables in a relational database. Each template that comes with Numbers is essentially a pre-designed relational database. John Davis The Word of today bears very little resemblance to its early versions. It used to be a great word processor.

I used Word up to 5.1 and loved it. Then, after that it died and was resurrected as a Frankenapp. It doesn’t seem to know what it is at the moment. It used to know.

It used to be a simple word processor. Small, fast, enough functions for most purposes. The nearest thing to the old Word around now is TextEdit. For most word processing, TextEdit is quite sufficient. If I need more, I go to Pages. I only wish you could set keyboard shortcuts for various styles.

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When you think about it, how much copy do we write that ends up printed? I think that full featured word processors are going away for the average user because most communication is done through email, and a blog-type format. If you could define what a home user needs in a word processor, I bet it’s not anything that would extend past one or two pages.

Word will be relegated to law and business soon. I doubt that iWork is poised to overtake MS in those strongholds. Industry and education need word processors, but at this point no home home user needs a word processor.