I really can use Pages for most of my work on existing Word documents my clients don’t notice the difference.īut in my experience, when converting PowerPoint presentations to Keynote format and then exporting them back as PowerPoint files, there is too much formatting information that gets lost or mangled. The situation with Keynote and PowerPoint is not comparable to the situation with Pages and Word. Sadly, no matter how much I despise PowerPoint, in my line of work I have no choice but to use it when a client requests the translation of a PowerPoint presentation. (I would extend my comments to all Microsoft products for all platforms, but strangely enough, Windows users seem to have much lower standards for their software, so I won’t even attempt to enter the fray.)

If other Microsoft software titles for the Mac are bad, PowerPoint is positively atrocious.

I generally think that Microsoft’s products for Mac OS X are complete and utter crap, but PowerPoint really takes the cake, so to speak. As regular Betalogue readers know, I am a very reluctant PowerPoint user.

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