To my knowledge you can still open up Apple Works documents in iWork.

iWork will read the MS Office stuff very well in most cases. It might display a little off kelter if they use alot of weird fonts or get nuts with all sorts of imbedded media. On rare occasions I up Open Office if I don’t care for what iWork did with a MS Office document.

While I have both iWork and Office on my Mac, I often just open Office format stuff in iWork and work with it. I can even save back if Office format to send back to PC users. Most of the time, they never know I edited their files with iWork.

Makes it great for working on this stuff too on iPad and iPhone. I hope an update comes out soon too.

Thanks for the help all! I went ahead and downloaded the iWork 30 day trial so I’ll get some practice working back and forth between the various files and formats… and I had forgotten about Open Office… that’s a good idea to get back on my machine. Thanks again!

Quite a bit. Not that the current iLife isn’t great, but I would love to see more features and integrations with iOS devices. I’m actually hoping that, with all the backing of HTML5, that iWeb ’11 will feature some nifty HTML5 effects built into it for easy use.

Ray, I thought she had mentioned she was a member in the past. I told her she was missing out by not coming to our meetings.

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