The good news is you can download the suite of apps for a 30-day trial from Apple. Also there are some deals to be had from Amazon or if you purchase at the time of your new Mac computer purchase, at which point it is a $49 add-on. Purchasing Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac directly from Microsoft will set you back either $149.99 for the Home and Student version or $279.99 for the Business version. #IWORK VS MICROSOFT OFFICE FULL#Īgain, there are deals to be had so look around you won’t likely have to pay full price if you get it from another retailer. The differences between the three price point options can be seen as follows:Īs you can see the only real difference between the two versions of Office is Outlook. If you need a powerful email, calendar and task manager all in one installed on your computer, then you have once choice. Office for Home and Business is $279 retail. But for most people that is not the case. The built in Mail program in OS X or an online solution, like Google’s Gmail with Google Calendar will suffice for most people. That brings us to the second major question in making this choice. If you work in a collaborative environment with people who all use Office and you will be sharing documents frequently, then choosing Office is likely your best bet. iWork plays nicely with Office if you are creating simple Pages documents or Keynote presentations. But get complicated and conversion will be a nightmare. And Numbers is just not comparable to Excel for complex spreadsheets. If you work in an environment where you will be making or sharing complex spreadsheets, then again you have one choice – Microsoft Office. Go with the Home version if you don’t need Outlook or Business if you do.Īnother environment that will affect your decision is your own home. If you have a number of Windows PCs running Office and only one Mac, you will have to export documents from iWork to edit them on the PC. There is a way to open pages documents on a PC if you only want to read those documents, and we showed you how previously. I have found that while I am using my new MacBook Air for a larger percentage of my work, I am still having to edit documents in Office 2010 in Windows. I have Pages and like it, but it is inconvenient to have to export documents to Word format when I also have Office for Mac and it saves documents in the same format as Office 2010 for Windows. I have my documents synced with DropBox and it is so convenient to be able to quickly open a document on my Windows machine without much thought of converting.
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