tried keynote oredi

damn cool

@tinkerbel,

during the office 08 installation, i had removed 04. now hav2 do the installation all over again.. cant thn the lag when using excel and word.

@balok,
i don't really know how to use keynote... first time experience give me like, wat's the diff with powerpoint? haha, i m an idiot in doing presentation.

people may say open office or iwork 08 work better, but i still prefer using microsoft 04, it's hard for my fren during compilation of our assignment, the margin will run, the effect wont shown... headache...

@jwho28,
Oh... It's a good thing I haven't deleted the Office 2004 of mine, don't have the installation disk on me *grins* Had better keep a copy now - shaites.. I hope I can find the Product Key though *oopS*

Keynote is not difficult to use but it will take some getting used to. Once you're familiar with it, it's like a breeze. And it sure looks better than powerpoint. At least, not so many people use it, so ur presentation would look a little more unique than the rest

oic.. mayb this CNY shud armed myself the technique of keynote so i can show off whenever there is a presentation.

Just reinstall my office 2004, everything went normal again. huuuuuu... dun worry, u sure find the product key. Every mac user should know where to find it. Lol.

@jwho28,
It's the Office 2004 product/license key leh! Ah well, but it does look like I will keep on using Office 2008

ibook? It's better you use office 2004 instead. Office 2008 got many "cool cool" animations and transparency as well. Apart of that, Office 2008 is optimum for Intel although it also support PPC as well. I doubt it wil be smooth in G4 machines.

Btw, it should automatically delete the previous installation files once you install Office 2008. I'm not too sure la cos I don't have office 2004, and never try too due to non-UB issue. Once I install the "retail" version of office 2008, it auto delete the office 2008 beta which I have installed

@allvin,
You do need to remove it but it's removed into 'Trash' so u should be able to retrieve it from Trash

For my case, it let me to choose delete or no delete. Of course they recommend u to delete it.

o.. the key, i have it.. but it still works on my ibook even though i didnt copy the key inside. may my "ahem" version is tat advance.. haha

Does this means that iwork files can't work with microsoft office on a pc?

@IvanKang,
It can work; u just need to save it in the correct format - U choose the option when u save the file

err... for my case, it is already "deleted". I'm not sure about office 2004 la. that 2008 beta auto-deleted. I don't see any at my trash and in application also none of 2008 beta.

@allvin,
I believe I had a choice of whether I wanted to remove Office 2004 or not; first time I didn't remove it and just went on to upgrade it but my files were still being opened by Office 2004, so I think I did a manual removal [perhaps that's Y it ended up in my trash] or well, i don't remember! *gulps*

What about keynote files, can it be saved in power point format.
Sorry for all the last minute question, last minute decision on either getting ms office 08 or iwork 08

it can be saved as ppt but it is "export". But some of the transition will not have and formatting will be the same in ppt version, that's the down side. If you are serious in offce work, i suggest you get office 2008 instead of iWork, especially you are using excel. iWork numbers is not mature yet. That's my opinion. Like pages in iWork, when you import/export microsoft word files, usually the formatting will be KO.

Hey guys,

I just wondering, does iWork'08 FULLY compatible with windows' WORD?
(which means, i can save as .doc in Pages, and open .doc in Windows, vice versa)

Planning to get a iWork..

Who is using Pages currect?

Thank you.

yes, you can save a Pages document in .doc format, and it will open in MS Word for Windows.

IIRC don't expect to get the full functions of editing and modifying that's available in MS Word 2008 for Mac and MS Word 2007 for Windows.

dude, u should read my above post la.



It is not FULL compatible, unless you don't mind about the formatting

Er.. If u just want users to view the file, save it pdf format, ur formatting will still be there; only fall back is the 'no edit allowed' problem! *grins*