Home Theater Forum - View Single Post

Carlo Medina · 03-10-2008, 01:02 PM

At work (PC) I use Word 2003, then 2007 exclusively. At home, I use iWork '06, then '08, exclusively. For the times I have taken stuff home to work on, I have not had problems reading Word files at home (i.e. loading a Word doc onto Pages, though I haven't tried using the .docx format yet) nor exporting to .doc from Pages and reading that stuff at work.

Now I don't get into crazy formatting use, I occasionally use bullets, etc. so perhaps some of the more fancy formatting might suffer, but for normal every day use I haven't had a problem.

FWIW, I love Pages's ability to create ligatures on the fly, and the display of fonts is unmatched on the Mac, that's why I use Pages at home instead of Word (and I have Office 2004 for the Mac).

03-10-2008, 01:02 PM	#4 of 11
Carlo Medina Member Location: Land of the Passion Bucket Join Date: Nov 1997 Local Time: 01:19 AM Local Date: 08-30-2008 Posts: 10,513	Re: Word Vs. Pages? At work (PC) I use Word 2003, then 2007 exclusively. At home, I use iWork '06, then '08, exclusively. For the times I have taken stuff home to work on, I have not had problems reading Word files at home (i.e. loading a Word doc onto Pages, though I haven't tried using the .docx format yet) nor exporting to .doc from Pages and reading that stuff at work. Now I don't get into crazy formatting use, I occasionally use bullets, etc. so perhaps some of the more fancy formatting might suffer, but for normal every day use I haven't had a problem. FWIW, I love Pages's ability to create ligatures on the fly, and the display of fonts is unmatched on the Mac, that's why I use Pages at home instead of Word (and I have Office 2004 for the Mac).