Brian, I rather enjoy the elegance of Appleworks and TextEdit but I hear many good things about the new iWork and am looking forward to trying it out. From all reports it will more than satisfy Microsoft Office users, and if it has anything in common with other apple apps will be both beautiful and relatively easy to use. I'd recommend checking it out. These days Apple is getting very serious about getting things right for everyone. All I can say is go for it Steve J. Tony --