02-09-2008, 08:37 PM
The only specific incompatibilities I've seen have been with the import of particular types of cells in Excel. Numbers gives detailed accounting of what issues are detected on import, making it easy to avoid any serious gotchas later on.
I'm sure there are hiccups I've not seen, but the ease and elegance of creating documents in iWork is more than enough compensation (not to mention that iWork's $79 price tag is less than 1/2 that of upgrading to Office '08).
If planning to make repeated roundtrips between iWork and Office, I'd recommend never actually saving the doc in iWork, but rather exporting to Office each time (thus avoiding the confusion of which file type contains the latest/greatest.
I'm sure there are hiccups I've not seen, but the ease and elegance of creating documents in iWork is more than enough compensation (not to mention that iWork's $79 price tag is less than 1/2 that of upgrading to Office '08).
If planning to make repeated roundtrips between iWork and Office, I'd recommend never actually saving the doc in iWork, but rather exporting to Office each time (thus avoiding the confusion of which file type contains the latest/greatest.