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Originally Posted by Gizzer
I bought the original iWork when it came out, and I have to say that it's the only Apple software that I absolutely hate! I just find it's UI the most un-Apple and unusable interface I've seen. The six million inspectors it uses are mostly to blame. I find it very unintuitive. Also, I hated the lack of Exposé functionality in Keynote when in full screen presentation mode, although maybe that changed in iWork '06.
Bizarrely, one of the most elegant solutions I've seen recently is the new "Ribbon" in Office 2007. I hope the MS Mac unit utilise it in the Mac '07 release. Or alternatively, I hope Apple just rip off the idea and make it even more snazzy!
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I've tried out the iWork '06 Trial that came with my mac, but i've never been able to get into it. I'd be quite happy to ditch MS Office and NeoOffice and buy the reasonably priced iWork suite, but like you said its just an awful environment to work in. Maybe its because i've been used to using MS Office for so long and know my around it, even still though you would think Apple could make an easy-to-use office environment. So far they've fallen flat on their feet trying to create one, it's a shame really as I would benefit so much from iWork, I rarely use any of the advanced Word features, and Powerpoint is simply awful anyway compared to Keynote.