Focus:Microsoft Office or iWork
Undoubtedly, Microsoft Office, the 800-pound gorilla of productivity suites, Mac and Windows. In the latest version of Office 2011, product teams have added a lot of taste in performance and functionality.
The question is, can go with the alternatives? In particular, as iWork? The answer depends, to use the applications, the level of functionality you expect from them, how they work and with whom they work. Since offers very happy, in the office today ($ 80 for home and students who are missing, such as Outlook, the problem of business address) are, it is interesting to think about the match-up.
For basic word processing, the amount of pages of Microsoft Word. Of course, things are in different places and not so familiar language, and it may take some time to adapt. However, if the ultimate goal to get your thoughts down on paper and have the flexibility to form words, like you, is part of the job do not like is. And if you need the flexibility to design pages, page design tools allows an elegant and simple solution to the documents you need to use for the position of things around microsoft office 2010.
If you are active users of Word on your Mac or PC, the sides playing well in most cases, but some formatting details such as the inclusion of one side to the other format .. doc support or follow changes that are crucial for most workflow Multi Word, but if the rotunda of the document, it depends much, you can ensure that your colleagues are involved, see it.
By the treatment of the word, good word processing, presentation is often differentiation in the way of delivering content, the substance of the contents of shadow itself. For presentations, Keynote is for home office and most small companies, more than PowerPoint. PowerPoint exceeds what most important in submissions: impact and style. Guides that complement better the position of objects and animation sparkle intuitive and building systems that help the presentation easier. How many Apple products, Keynote manages a good balance between usability and advanced features.
In addition, users of PowerPoint experts working on specific problems point Keynote for professional production: to play no graceful way audio over multiple slides, not the left or to the reception as the stage of entertainment and support for plug- Ins Flash and other popular third-party tools on the Windows version of PPT. The return of Visual Basic macros for PowerPoint 2011 for Mac presentation using automation and some other options there (or easier to implement), compared with the limited support for AppleScript in Keynote. Microsoft Office 2010 Professional has also added functionality or the opening game, including a version of the band like Instant Alpha tool for financing of the images on the fly, on the Internet demand playback of presentations to groups at a distance, everything has to be removed.
[One of the biggest improvements in PowerPoint 2011 is not yet in the application itself in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows, which ultimately supports integrated playback of QuickTime movies. It is no longer dependent on a short list of media formats compatible with each other and forced to transcode your videos to WMV collaborate with Windows users PPT. This is an important agreement.
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