Article:		What's New in iWork '06?
Subject:		Compatibility With Office?
Date:		2006-02-28 01:02:24
From:		Kelmon
I have a couple of questions about iWork 06: 1. How compatible are the documents created by Pages and Keynote with their Word and PowerPoint counterparts in Office 2003 (Windows) and Office 2004 (Mac)? 2. For an existing user of Office 2004, are there good reasons to buy a copy of iWork 06 or would you consider it unnecessary? I'm all for making my life easier and adding a bit more interest to my documents so I'd entertain the idea of using both suites if it is worth it. Anyway, a very good article on the applications.

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• Compatibility With Office?
  2006-03-06 04:02:25  Kelmon [Reply | View]
  
  
  I'm going to partially answer my own question as I had the opportunity to try out Pages in an Apple Store a couple of days ago and tested its compatibility with Word 2004 by opening my dissertation document in it. The results were both good and bad in that the structure of the document was largely correct but Pages screwed up my Table of Contents, Table of Figures and Table of Tables, plus it exbibits some curious behaviour when an image is added to a table to aid layout (probably unnecessary in Pages itself but Word needed it) as it turns it into a background graphic. Besides that it looked pretty good but the 2 applications certainly aren't 100% compatible and that's a no-no for me at the moment.