

Still much prefer to not be in excel, but I’m not gonna pretend like it isn’t great for some of the stuff I hack together on the fly. It’s just really shitty with version control obviously and I do more VBA than I’d like (more of a python boi myself)… but I can build some pretty wicked shit really quickly for stakeholders if they need something custom. I just prefer Pages and Numbers a little more.Įxcel is basically a low-code app platform The design ideas in particular have made making presentations that actually look good way easier IMO.īut the best feature iWork has is the ability to import Word and Excel documents to work on them with no issues as well as the ability to export your projects to Office, which is essential if you want to be sure everyone can open and work on them. Works fine, looks good, but PowerPoint is better for me. None of that has ever mattered to me, so I stick with Numbers. But Excel has way more advanced chart types and some more advanced formulas that Numbers doesn’t directly have. Charts are easier to make and design in Numbers. Numbers allows for a couple more data types than Excel such as checkboxes and star ratings, which you obviously could represent just fine with a 0/1 or 1-5 in any spreadsheet, but it’s nice to have the little checkboxes and stars for some things. I think it looks way better and is more intuitive to look at data this way, because the tables can interconnect with one another just fine.
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Instead of the infinitely big spreadsheet Excel and basically every other spreadsheet software uses, Numbers has blank white canvases onto which you put tables where you want your data to go. Numbers, though, I genuinely find far superior to use than Excel, but that’s because I like how Numbers handles sheets and data. For most things, I think Word and Pages are basically equal, but I greatly prefer Pages’ UI, so that’s what I use. Most academics I know would prefer to use a dedicated citation manager like Mendeley anyway, but still. On the other hand, Pages lacks some great features like Word’s built-in citation management. Same with text formatting: it’s just quicker and easier to find the things I want to modify, and managing styles within a document is simpler. Well, I won’t say they’re superior-Office probably has more features by any objective measure-but I do like using them more.įor example, Pages’ handling of sections, tables of contents, and navigation within a document I find a lot easier to use and just all around better. This subreddit is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc.


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