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Word? Oh, yeah, I remember that program...
I was perusing MacIntouch this evening, catching up on the day's Mac-related news, and noticed that Microsoft had released yet another security patch for Microsoft Office for Mac. I almost clicked on the link, ready to update my copy of office. And then it hit me:
I don't have Office on my computer. Not any more.
I recently had a hard drive meltdown, and it gave me the opportunity to cull the herd of programs on my computer down to a slim 60 (sounds like a lot, but it's better than the 80 that were on there pre-crash). And I realized that Apple had this nifty suite of Office-like programs out there, and why not give it a try? Well, there might be a lot of reasons, actually. First off, it's sorta new, although it's in v.2 and has a couple of years of public use out in front of it, and people say it's pretty stable. Secondly, I was worried that my clients would get all up in my face about having to save their content files in some sort of esoteric export type. Fortunately, this is not the case: Pages, iWork's Word substitute, opens and works with Word files pretty seamlessly, and you can export into older and newer versions of Word docs from Pages, too. Same thing goes for Numbers/Excel (I haven't tried Keynote vs. PowerPoint, but I can't imagine it would be incompatible.)
So now I have iWork, and don't have to download patch after patch of macro security fixes. The nice thing about how Apple has integrated macros into their system is that, well, it's a system-level action, and so any security issues are addressed as system patches, not as an application patch. And since AppleScript has been around for a gazillion years, it's easy for us to use, modify, and turn off if we don't want it.
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