MacBook Question?

Question

hey im lookin forward to buying a macbook and i was wondering if u can answer my questions!

1) is there anything similar like microsoft word on the macbook

2)is there anything similar like microsoft powerpoint on the macbook

3)is there anything similar like microsoft excel on the macbook

Answer 1

Office 2004 is currently available for the Mac, and it features versions of all three of the programs you asked about. However, it was written for the old PowerPC architecture and has to run under Rosetta. I've found that it runs very well unless you're doing data analysis in Excel, and even then it only acts funny with extremely large data sets. There are a lot of things about Office 2004 on the Mac that I like better than Office for Windows; however, I have yet to be able to open an Office 2007 .docx file in Office 2004. Maybe I'm missing something, but the converter Microsoft released doesn't seem to work on my Mac.

Office 2008 is scheduled to come out in January, it's supposed to have all the features of Office 2007 for Windows, including the new .docx format.

There's also a port of OpenOffice.org for the Mac. It's called Neo Office. It's completely free, and has basic word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation functionality. It also opens .docx files from Office 2007.

And, finally, there's Apple's own iWork '08 suite, which has a word processor, a spreadsheet application, and a presentation package which--quite frankly--is far more advanced than Powerpoint. I haven't used the spreadsheet application yet, but I would imagine that it's not quite as advanced at Microsoft Excel.

Also, if you're planning on purchasing this computer for school, the university where I'm at requires all students to have Microsoft Office installed on their laptops for in-class use. However, they also give students free copies of Office for Mac and PC under a multi-user license agreement. So you might want to check and see if there's something like that available too.

Answer 2

Yes, all of the programs that you mentioned above are available on the MacBook.
When you buy your MacBook there's a 30 days free trial of Microsoft Office 2004 available on it and when the 30 days are finished you can buy the Mac version for Microsoft Office but there's also iWork which is very similar to Microsoft Office but it's designed only for Mac and is cheaper than Microsoft Office.
Hope this helps,
Good luck :)

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Hi

William G did an *excellent* job of answering your question.

Just so that you know, Microsoft (not Apple) made Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the Macintosh before Microsoft ported them to Windows.

It's the Windows people who should be asking whether Macintosh applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will work on their PCs.

-Jim

Answer 5

You can buy all of those things for Mac OS X. Microsoft and Apple teamed up (OMGWTF?) to make Microsoft Office for Mac. Or you could purchase 'iWork' which is an Apple program suite that in my opinion looks way better, especially when it comes to Powerpoint (Or 'Keynote' as it's called in iWork).