Originally Posted by Snowlady

I must confess I made the switch to a macbookpro a few years back, and loved the photo manipulation,etc, but miss windows world of word and excel, etc. I'm not sure if it is how my brain has been trained after years of microsoft, but I cannot get the hang of Numbers and Pages, and I have rewatched the videos aagain and again. Love my iphone, ipad, apple tv, ipod, and latlest convenience of the wireless keyboard. There is just a major hole in my life without word and excel. I am retired so its not my daily work, but still need it for other stuff, and I'd love some advice. ( I'm really not dense, I taught myself word, and lotus, later excep and powerpoint.) Its almost like trying to figure an issue out creates bigger problems and I eventually quit. This is 4 years!

Curious why you don't get Microsoft Office for Mac? It certainly costs more ($119 - $199) than the $19.99 for Pages or Numbers but it might be worth a look. You can get a free 30 day trial.