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To: Cogito who wrote (132275)	4/26/2012 8:41:15 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213181

What irks me about this whole dependence on MS Office is that MS Office 2011, particularly Word, is (are?) crap on the Mac (might even be as useless on the PC for all I know). It's likely to be even more worthless on a tablet. I have become so exasperated with Word on the Mac these days when I try to control image and table placement that I now do ALL EDITING in Pages and export to Word so the poor Windows saps can use them. In fact I have edited publishable documents in Pages that I would never attempt in Word. Word is particularly good at scrambling entire documents, while Pages actually works much like a page layout program. I can imagine how Office programs will run on a tablet - 1/2 inch of vertical editing region while the rest of the screen is taken up with the File-Edit... menu, rows of Icon menus, and cool ribbons. It would be just like bringing back that old successful command line editor. Numbers is an excellent stand-in for Excel and has much better layout options since multiple independent tables can be placed on a single page along with the graphics. All iWork apps, including Keynote, have been carefully adapted to the iPad and even run on the iPhone. They are not used as agilely as on a Mac and don't have as many features - but you really can edit with them. And they all read and export to MS Office applications.