That said, there is just no way to get structured PDFs using real OS X software, and that's why I'm using OpenOffice even though I would prefer a native OS X program that is tightly integrated. The nonstandard keyboard shortcuts really suck and hamper the workflow. The biggest drawback is the missing ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to style sheets.
And there are things that are indeed not as good as on MS Word, especially keyboard shortcut / productivity tricks. I don't like X11 apps on Mac OS X either. like i said, i hardly use word processing and I have keynote, open office seems too clunky for the effort ) because i already paid for the excel package. Open office has never appealed to me (i installed it once. (i also love the drag and drop pdf capability but i think this is more an aqua thing than a keynote thing.?) I use MS word occasionally for typing up letters (and opening email attachments!) but for reports I use latex (via TeXshop) so appleworks word probably would do for me if I only bought excel (but its cheaper to get the lot)Īs far as keynote goes, I think it was such a great improvement over powerpoint at the time, but the non-existent development since then is going to leave it way behind - I know a lot of people use it and love it, but if they dont fix the printing/pdf options and add some extra stuff it will die - powerpoint already has copied all the great stuff keynote offers (well, i assume it has, except maybe "cube" transistions) and noone who hasnt yet switched ever will. It really is a superior spreadsheet program (anyone ever tried appleworks? what a joke! its a wordprocessor with boxes).
Word is the only MS app I'm hanging onto, and I have no use for Excel.īeing in a scientific field I find that Excel is worth the MS-infection on my machine.
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