Customer Reviews for iWork '09 Family Pack

iWork '09 Family Pack
by Apple Computer

	List Price: ~~$99.00~~ Our Price: $78.57 You Save: $20.43 (21%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used and New: from $67.95 (click here) Category: Software See more product details and other editions

Software Reviews of iWork '09 Family Pack

Customer Review: Fun, easy, but still a little odd for someone used to MS Office
Summary: 4 Stars

I enjoy using the iWork applications, especially Keynote, but find they lack some of the little creature-comforts I've learned over the years of using MSOffice products. A little missing format button here, a missing keyboard shortcut there, and occasionally a missing capability altogether, add up to me continuing to use both iWork and MSOffice rather than just standardizing on one.

Customer Review: A Mac must have!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Fantastic productivity software designed to work for you through your favorite computer. Numbers work great with the checkbook software on iphone... unlike Microsoft office. Word does most of the creative page design and layout for you saving lots of time.

Customer Review: Finished with Microsoft !!
Summary: 5 Stars

I've downloaded my last "absolutely essential, gotta have it now, and then re-boot" update from Microsoft for their bloated virus-ridden overly expensive ribbon-infested poorly written code software. iWork does everything that MS Office does for 20% of the cost and no more Microsoft junk on my Mac. I switched to Mac to escape Microsoft's OS, and now I have escaped them completely. Fed up baby-sitting Microsoft's software. Love my Mac and ALL of its software !!!!! Yeah !!!!!

Customer Review: Great replacement for Microsoft Office
Summary: 4 Stars

I'm new to Macs and I haven't used iWork before, so I can't compare '09 to anything previously. But I love the way the word processor and the numbers programs work. Coming from an Office 2003 background, I found that I was able to pick up the applications and use them right out of the box. I do have Office 2003 running in a VMWare fusion Windows XP image, but I much prefer using the iWork products to the Office ones now.

My only small complaint would be the needing to remember to "save as" a Word document if you want to be able to send the files to a Windows user to work on. The pages or numbers formats are the default for the iWork applications, so working together with a windows user on the same document can sometimes mean two of the same documents (one in Word and one in Pages, for example) are floating around.

All in all a great product and well worth the price!