Word, excel and powerpoint alternatives?...

I personally use iWork 08. However, others have used other solutions such as NeoOffice.

In iWork, you have to export files as Word, PowerPoint, etc. Not a big deal, but not as intuitive as you would think when you first use it.

Hope this helps...

I addition to iWork from Apple ($80), Neo Office is open source freeware (donations accepted) that does a very good job on all of these applications.

I have tested with Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents with 100% success.

If you choose to use iWork, you would create the presentation and then "export" it as a powerpoint file to your USB drive. It would then be readable on a system using powerpoint...

I can't speak for how Neo Office does this...

I have had no complaints regarding ease of use or how presentations display in powerpoint.

Message was edited by: kjlake

In Neo Office, you can create the document and then do a "Save As". You can then select format from a list of choices, and even versions. You can then open the document from an Office equiped PC for example.

I use office for mac 2004 which is powerpoint, word and excel and so yes files work on either your mac or pc

At the end, if you decided that you need Microsoft office or decided to buy one, I would suggest to hold on that plan until they released the newer version on '08 that runs natively with intelmac machine.

But as other suggest, you can use iWork and neo office, just save the file using save as to microsoft office format.

Good luck.

ps: some font that you use for presentation using neo office or iWork that is not default for MS office, might be displayed slightly differ using similar or any font close to it.