Should You Use Microsoft Office or Apple Apps on Your Mac?

Aug 14, 2023

Should You Use Microsoft Office or Apple Apps on Your Mac?

https://macmost.com/e-2867 Do you need to purchase and use Microsoft Office? Free Apple apps like Pages and Numbers are good alternatives to Word and Excel. But some people may still be better off buying Microsoft Office and having both sets of apps available.

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00:00 Intro
00:52 Where To Get Microsoft Office
01:25 Stick With Microsoft Because You Know It Well
01:57 Use Microsoft Office Because They Are More Powerful
02:32 Use Microsoft Office For Compatibility With Others
02:57 Use Microsoft Office To Work With Existing Documents
03:25 Use Apple Apps Because They Are Free
03:52 Use Apple Apps Because They Are Easier To Learn/Use
05:06 Use Apple Apps For Mac Ecosystem Compatibility
06:05 Apple Apps Can Still Open Microsoft Documents
06:50 You Can Use Both
07:26 No Right Or Wrong Answer

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0 -> hi this is Gary with macmost.com should

2.76 -> you install Microsoft Office on your Mac

4.68 -> or just use Pages numbers and Keynote

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23.16 -> so a question I'm often asked and that I

25.26 -> often see online is do you need to

27.06 -> install the Microsoft Office apps on

29.4 -> your Mac in particular apps like word

32.099 -> excel and PowerPoint the alternative of

34.559 -> course is to use Apple's apps Pages

36.96 -> numbers and keynote pages in word are

39.6 -> both word processors numbers and Excel

42.239 -> are both spreadsheet apps and keynote

44.7 -> and PowerPoint are both presentation

46.5 -> apps but they all do look and work

49.2 -> differently so which one should you use

52.2 -> you can get Microsoft's apps from the

54.899 -> Mac App Store they're all available to

57.3 -> download for free but you're going to

59.94 -> need a subscription to use them you can

61.86 -> choose from a couple different

62.76 -> subscription plans from Microsoft site

64.92 -> and then in those apps you log in to be

67.799 -> able to access your account and then

69.479 -> unlock the app there's also the options

71.58 -> to do one-time purchase you can still do

73.92 -> that from Microsoft but it's going to

75.72 -> cost more and of course that's not going

77.22 -> to include major updates so at some

79.439 -> point in the future you may find that

80.759 -> you need to buy a new version to replace

83.34 -> the Aging one that you have now the main

85.92 -> reason to use Microsoft Office apps is

88.259 -> if you're used to them say you've come

90.54 -> from the windows world you're now on the

92.58 -> Mac and you have years of experience and

94.799 -> knowledge for using Microsoft Word and

97.14 -> Excel and you don't want to stop using

99.6 -> them now and use something new well you

101.579 -> can simply use the Mac versions of those

103.979 -> and continue on doing things the way

105.78 -> that you've always done the Mac versions

107.7 -> do look a little bit different they're a

109.14 -> little more tuned to the Mac interface

111.42 -> but you're going to find it a pretty

113.399 -> easy transition to go from the windows

115.2 -> version of Word to the Mac version of

117.54 -> Word another reason you may want to use

119.1 -> Microsoft's apps is that they are

121.56 -> without a doubt the most powerful I love

124.2 -> the Apple apps and I use the Apple apps

126.18 -> myself but there is no doubt that

129.06 -> Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel are

131.52 -> the most powerful word processor and

134.099 -> spreadsheet app on the market they've

136.5 -> been around for a long time and they

138 -> have tons of features packed into them

140.52 -> most people of course don't need all of

142.92 -> these features and some of them are

144.72 -> really obscure and have very specialized

146.94 -> uses but there's definitely more

148.739 -> features packed into Word and Excel than

151.44 -> pages and numbers another reason to

153.48 -> stick with Microsoft Office apps is for

155.52 -> compatibility if you work with people or

158.099 -> collaborate with people that are also

160.26 -> using Microsoft Office apps it's much

162.959 -> easier to pass the same documents back

166.08 -> and forth not converting them all the

168.42 -> time back and forth to other formats if

171 -> that's even just going to save you a

172.2 -> little bit of time and frustration it's

173.7 -> probably worth the entire price of using

176.459 -> the Microsoft Office apps and also

178.56 -> another type of compatibility is

180.06 -> document compatibility if say you've

182.04 -> come from the windows world and you have

183.54 -> years and years worth of Microsoft Word

185.64 -> doc files and Excel XLS files well then

189.3 -> having Microsoft Office around to be

190.86 -> able to open those old file files is

192.659 -> really useful of course you can open

194.28 -> them in pages and numbers as well but

196.739 -> there may be compatibility issues it

198.659 -> could be nice to have the official

200.76 -> Microsoft Office apps there to be able

203.04 -> to access all your files without any

205.019 -> problems now how about the Apple apps

207.12 -> Pages numbers and keynote well the main

210 -> advantage to those without a doubt is

211.86 -> that they're free if you've got a Mac

214.019 -> you can install Pages numbers and

216 -> keynote on your Mac just get them from

218.159 -> the app store if you don't already have

219.84 -> them on your Mac and it doesn't cost you

222.06 -> anything in fact even if you have

224.34 -> Microsoft Office you should probably

225.84 -> have those apps installed anyway they

228 -> could be useful for some tasks when you

229.86 -> don't need all the power that's in the

231.84 -> office apps now also I believe that the

234.12 -> Mac apps are easier to use for instance

236.58 -> take a look at Pages here this is a

239.28 -> blank document Pages you've just created

241.14 -> a document you're ready to start writing

242.7 -> you can see some buttons here at the top

244.379 -> you can see controls for things like

246.239 -> font and styling here on the right now

248.64 -> look at Microsoft Word it definitely

250.319 -> looks more complex Maybe he only

252.36 -> marginally so though instead of having

254.22 -> things on the right everything's here at

256.139 -> the top and this is just a portion of

258.18 -> the controls you have to switch between

260.54 -> these different ribbons here at the top

263.04 -> to actually access everything

265.62 -> it's really not that different from

268.02 -> having the right sidebar there but I

270.18 -> think if you really wanted to compare

271.5 -> them you would have to come to the

272.88 -> conclusion that words more complex which

275.759 -> makes sense since it's more powerful the

278.04 -> same thing with Excel and numbers here

280.139 -> here's Excel and you can see all the

282.12 -> different ribbons here at the top and

283.979 -> here's numbers you still have a lot of

285.54 -> that complexity here in the right

286.919 -> sidebar if you even want to have that

289.08 -> visible but I think everything looks a

291.12 -> lot cleaner and it's a little bit easier

292.62 -> to understand as long as you're not

294.78 -> already deeply entrenched in Excel of

297.18 -> course it's going to be hard to

298.08 -> transition from Excel to Numbers but if

300.419 -> you haven't really used Excel I think

302.58 -> starting in numbers is going to be

304.44 -> easier than starting in Excel also keep

306.96 -> in mind that with Pages numbers in

308.16 -> keynote there are also free versions for

310.979 -> the iPhone and iPad so if you have

314.639 -> multiple Apple devices and you learn to

317.28 -> use Pages say on the Mac you can use

320.28 -> some of those skills to actually use

321.66 -> pages on your iPhone or your iPad as

323.88 -> well and there are no compatibility

325.259 -> issues plus of course the Apple apps

327.3 -> work really well in the Apple ecosystem

328.979 -> for instance if you save a Pages

331.32 -> document to iCloud you can go to the

334.38 -> share menu here and easily collaborate

336.3 -> with other Mac users using Pages it just

339.84 -> kind of works seamlessly there's really

341.58 -> not too much to learn you're just both

343.259 -> working on the same document now that's

345.539 -> also true of Microsoft Office apps you

348.24 -> can collaborate as long as you save to

350.759 -> Microsoft OneDrive if all of your

352.979 -> co-workers or collaborators are using

354.84 -> Microsoft Office then it may be better

356.759 -> to stick with Microsoft Office but if

359.22 -> they're not if in fact they're all using

361.08 -> Macs then it may be better to

362.88 -> collaborate with them using Apple's apps

365.28 -> another thing about Pages numbers and

367.259 -> keynote is you can still work with

368.88 -> Microsoft Office documents so this comes

370.979 -> in really handy if you don't necessarily

372.12 -> need to work with those documents but

374.1 -> you do need to view them so for instance

375.96 -> here in pages I could open up a

378.66 -> Microsoft Word file no problem

381.419 -> and it will simply convert it and it

384 -> will give me warnings if there's

385.259 -> anything that's not compatible but my

387.84 -> goal here was just to read the document

389.22 -> like say someone in a group I'm in

390.9 -> insists on Distributing basic

393.12 -> information in Microsoft Word docs you

395.1 -> could still open it up in pages to read

397.62 -> it and if you ever want to give somebody

399.78 -> a document to work on in your own pages

401.58 -> and they're using Microsoft Word you can

404.1 -> always go to export and then export as

407.88 -> word and give them a Word document so

411 -> now some final advice first you can use

413.58 -> both if you pay to have Microsoft Office

416.039 -> there's no reason you shouldn't have

417.66 -> Pages numbers in keynote also on your

419.699 -> Mac in fact I did this for years when I

422.52 -> had to work in Microsoft Word for

424.68 -> writing computer books that's what my

426.479 -> publisher used but I did everything else

429.18 -> in Pages matter of fact this is a good

431.22 -> strategy if you slowly want to wean

433.02 -> yourself off of using Microsoft Office

435.18 -> apps you can use Pages for some things

437.58 -> word for things that you need to use

439.38 -> word for and then as you get more

441.78 -> experience with Pages you may find at

443.52 -> some point you decide to ditch the

445.74 -> office apps in the end the decision's

447.599 -> got to be yours and there's no right or

449.58 -> wrong answer and you certainly don't

451.199 -> have to stick with the same answer you

453.18 -> could subscribe to Microsoft Office for

455.52 -> a year see how it goes and decide to

457.919 -> move completely to Apple apps next year

460.199 -> you could just use Apple apps for now

462.12 -> and we find out you can't get by working

464.22 -> with your colleagues with the Apple apps

466.74 -> you can then get Microsoft Office and

469.08 -> start using that but I do hope you found

471.12 -> this information useful thanks for

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