[macuser256]

Now I know all the topics these days seem to be about iPods and iPhones and such, but I was wondering from all of you who bought Apple's updated productivity suite how it has stood up to a solid month of use. I was seriously considering migrating from Office to iWork, but I wanted some reliable first-hand accounts before I took the plunge.

So how is it? Are you having problems with integration with your PC using buddies? Finding any frustrating missing features? Surprisingly useful features? Any information would be helpful.

Thank you.

[chucker]

Originally Posted by macuser256 [..] how it has stood up to a solid few months of use.

Actually, it has only been out for 34 days. I'm just saying.

I've moved some of my stuff from Excel to Numbers. Nowhere near as powerful, but far less of a pain to work with.

[kieran]

I've started to use Pages a lot more than I use Word now.

Numbers has been awesome the few times I've used it. I've got to use it a bit more before I get rid of Excel.

Keynote is simply amazing. Always has been.

[PB PM]

I've always liked Pages, and its even better now. Keynote, great, new effects, cool. Numbers, I've liked it, although only used it a few times.

[Sargasm]

I'm a student, and I've decided to uninstall my copy of Microsoft Office.

That should (hopefully) say enough.

[Kickaha]

For 99% of my needs, iWork is heads and shoulders above Office.

For that last 1%, which is strictly 100% compatibility* with coworkers who can't figure out that, if I only need to read something, a PDF is *preferred*, I keep my copy of Office around wasting space.

*Where compatibility is defined by MS as "May or may not work, but it's your fault because you're not running Windows, you stealer of money from our wallets."

[einlanzer237]

I don't think Numbers supports graphs with error bars or trendlines. That's a deal breaker for me, because I need error bars for lab work.

If I'm mistaken about this, and someone knows how to make graphs with error bars, I would probably switch from Office.