Pages is a pretty reasonable alternate of Word, for me at least. Keynote is decent too.
However, Numbers is not at all an Excel replacement and that is going to cause a lot of grief.
However, Numbers is not at all an Excel replacement and that is going to cause a lot of grief.
Glad to know that Pages does a good job as a Word replacement. I do track changes pretty frequently and have wondered how solid the support/translation is for that feature.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2017/07/30/latex-ma...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design
Some great applications. I would love to have a direct port of all of them today. Of course I also want the shelf back and I want my menus on the side like NeXT. Oh well.
Keynote was created so Steve could have something that worked and looked the same as Concurrence. He would use his old NeXT to create presentation until Keynote.
If Pages works for you, great: but save a copy in a different format if you want to be able to edit it in a couple years.
I have been stuck multiple times with users upgrading Pages two versions later on a desktop and then unable to read on their laptop or vice versa. Inexcusable!
And the icloud version of Numbers is pretty handy when you don't have a Mac around (but the collaboration capabilities suck compared to Sheets).
If you’re even a halfway serious user of Excel than indeed, Numbers is a complete joke. But if google sheets would work for you numbers probably would too.
For simpler tasks where a spreadsheet program is obviously the right tool for the job, Numbers tends to be plenty capable and give a nicer user experience than Excel and clones. For example, a few weeks ago I discovered that Numbers is vastly better at doing time-related calculations than Excel.
Numbers fails completely when you start moving into the problem domains where a SQL database and/or scripting language are good tools to consider.