Suite of Word, Excel and Powerpoint?
Many people online at 1-800-My-Apple and at the Apple store strongly suggested trying iWork with Pages and Numbers for $41 and then getting the $99 1-1 membership too INSTEAD of buying Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint for the $146 they were selling it for, all student discounts.
Numbers and Pages are AWFUL for me. None of my tons of PC word docs (I'm a 15 year PC user before last month when I got a 27" iMac 3.06 base model which I adore, for the most part) look right in pages. There are logos in Word for our company that won't move to the center of the pages document. The guy on the phone from Apple said there's nothing I can do after we spend a lot of time with Footer and Header changes.
He thought the store would refund me the $41 I spent on it and then sell me the $146 Microsoft suite instead. He also said I should have done this to begin with because so many of my docs and spreadsheets were on Microsoft. Arghhhhh. I have spent countless frustrating hours this past month trying to get stuff to work. I can't wait to get rid of Pages.
Is there a cheaper, yet safe place to get Word, Excel and Powerpoint than the Apple Store discount? I don't want to buy anything on Ebay. I just don't trust that place, mostly. You never really know if you're going to get what you are trying to get and it's a pain if the product is a scam, to get your money back. I don't have time or patience for that. Is there another trusted seller though? Or, just get it from the Apple store and call it a day? $146 seems like a LOT of money just to have Word again, and Excel. I don't really use Powerpoint much at all but it would be nice to have if I need it.
A friend had mentioned openoffice but I'm not really familiar with it. The one that's free on the internet? Is that really comparable to the actual "Word" product? If it is, why would so many people... buy Word for so much money?
Thanks,
Steve R
Many people online at 1-800-My-Apple and at the Apple store strongly suggested trying iWork with Pages and Numbers for $41 and then getting the $99 1-1 membership too INSTEAD of buying Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint for the $146 they were selling it for, all student discounts.
Numbers and Pages are AWFUL for me. None of my tons of PC word docs (I'm a 15 year PC user before last month when I got a 27" iMac 3.06 base model which I adore, for the most part) look right in pages. There are logos in Word for our company that won't move to the center of the pages document. The guy on the phone from Apple said there's nothing I can do after we spend a lot of time with Footer and Header changes.
He thought the store would refund me the $41 I spent on it and then sell me the $146 Microsoft suite instead. He also said I should have done this to begin with because so many of my docs and spreadsheets were on Microsoft. Arghhhhh. I have spent countless frustrating hours this past month trying to get stuff to work. I can't wait to get rid of Pages.
Is there a cheaper, yet safe place to get Word, Excel and Powerpoint than the Apple Store discount? I don't want to buy anything on Ebay. I just don't trust that place, mostly. You never really know if you're going to get what you are trying to get and it's a pain if the product is a scam, to get your money back. I don't have time or patience for that. Is there another trusted seller though? Or, just get it from the Apple store and call it a day? $146 seems like a LOT of money just to have Word again, and Excel. I don't really use Powerpoint much at all but it would be nice to have if I need it.
A friend had mentioned openoffice but I'm not really familiar with it. The one that's free on the internet? Is that really comparable to the actual "Word" product? If it is, why would so many people... buy Word for so much money?
Thanks,
Steve R