[iBook] alternative to powerpoint?

[Russ Edwards]

I know that iwork costs money but it sure is worth it.  Sometimes you
get what you pay for.

On 4/20/05, William Wiseman <elox at hot.rr.com> wrote:
> Uh, unless it has improved recently, NO/J is somewhat Office X
> compatible and mostly stable. I find that between Pages and Appleworks,
> I can open most Word documents and I have not gotten a PP file yet that
> Keynote would not open.
> 
> I would recommend the Pages/Keynote software. I've switched from being
> a long-time Appleworks and WordPerfect user to Pages. I have never been
> a fan of Word.
> 
> JeffW.
> 
> On Apr 20, 2005, at 7:16 PM, David Linker wrote:
> 
> > In addition to Keynote which costs money, and OpenOffice, which costs
> > nothing but only runs in X11, there is NeoOffice/J which costs nothing
> > and runs natively in OS X, and includes word-processing, spreadsheet,
> > presentation, and drawing, all office compatible.
> >
> > DTL
> >
> > On Dec 26, 2004, at 1:31 PM, J Patrick Draine wrote:
> >
> >> My father-in-law is staying with us for the holidays, and is verging
> >> on taking the plunge, and getting an iBook (after marveling at our
> >> family passing our iBook around the living room as we do many email
> >> and web activities wirelessly).
> >> So he's asking me exactly how much it will cost him, etc. After
> >> asserting that he won't need to buy any software beyond the bundle
> >> that comes with the iBook, I am having some minor reconsideration on
> >> one point. Should he buy Office X so that if he downloads a
> >> Powerpoint file he won't be flipping out when he can't open it? Or is
> >> there some alternate software that can open up such a file?
> >> Thanks,
> >> Patrick Draine
> >>
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