Hi i recently bought a Mac after using once for a short time in my previous job and on a recommendation from a friend. I love it but as i have always used microsoft products i am unsure what apps i need on my mac. Can someone please tell me what app Apple uses to as an equivalent to Microsoft office? any other good app suggestions would be great too.
cheers
chris
If you work in a school that requires Microsoft Office, then use Microsoft Office (Office 2016 for Mac). Read that again, because you want native document interchange with other Office users to avoid anomalies due to translations from non-Microsoft applications. Especially Apple's products.
Apple's applications are not individual clones of Microsoft counterparts, and translate proprietary Apple document content into Office document content. Apple does not guarantee conversion accuracy.
This is a Mavericks community. For Office 2016 for Mac, you will need to be running Yosemite (10.10 or later).
There is a version of Microsoft Office for the Mac as long as you are willing to pay for it.
There is also LibreOffice that is free.
thank you i did see their version of Office, but i was wondering do Apple have their own apps that do the same functions as all of the office software? Trying to make a fresh start and move away from the microsoft stuff.
p.s
thank you for such a quick response, appreciated.
The rough equivalent is the iWork suite, but it is not as full-“featured” as Office. I find that a benefit and not a shortcoming.
You certainly cannot create the powerful spreadsheets in Numbers as you can in Excel, but it really depends on what you need. Keynote is a better presentation program over PowerPoint. All of them can export as Word, Excel, Powerpoint docs if you need to send them to someone using Office.
You should be able to download those from the App Store for free.
Thank you, ill try and download those now.
last question what would you recommend as a replacement for Publisher?
I find that iStudio Publisher works well for my needs
cnesbitt1811 wrote:
Thank you, ill try and download those now.
last question what would you recommend as a replacement for Publisher?
Try Swift Publisher. http://www.belightsoft.com/products/swiftpublisher/overview.php
You can try it for free. It looks to be 33% discount right now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swift-publisher-3/id504851000?mt=12
Ive looked at both suggestions and my final question is do you know if either can allow me to save as a microsoft document the way pages allows me to? I work in a school and they only use Microsoft so this function is quite essential.
cnesbitt1811 wrote:
Ive looked at both suggestions and my final question is do you know if either can allow me to save as a microsoft document the way pages allows me to? I work in a school and they only use Microsoft so this function is quite essential.
Do they need to edit the document, or just see it? You can always print to PDF even if they don’t export to PDF.
Swift Publisher exports as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, and EPS.
A bit of googling seems to indicate the Publisher format is proprietary, so I doubt you’d find any that would export to that.
This was interesting: http://steve-parker.org/articles/ms_publisher/
on the majority of occasions i would only need to print which i can do. It would just be in case as an example i spotted a spelling mistake or an incorrect statement, i could log on and fix it without having to wait to go home.
It would mean i could have documents saved on a memory pen and print them using work printers etc.
thanks for all the reposes again folks 🙂
I had the same issue. Then I purchased the Microsoft office for mac.
new Mac user, What are Apple's equivalent to microsoft office?
