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Old 01-05-2014, 08:10 PM   #24
mbpark
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Office 2011 is the best way to go for any kind of professional document publication on the Mac. I had a customer that used Pages to access documents on a network file share. The amount of problems we had with file locking were such that I will never recommend it as a serious alternative. We did not have these problems with Office or OpenOffice.

OpenOffice is great for recovery of older Word and Excel documents, as they reverse-engineered the file formats and did a better job than Microsoft did at interpreting them. However, for document creation, if your time is money, don't use it. It messes up formatting.

Office 2008 was a good product, but 2011 is quite incredible, and just got updated.

The virtualization solutions are good, but only if you want to run Windows apps you cannot get on the Mac.
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