What is "Excel" and "Word"? Never used or owned them. I did use FileMaker for both record keeping and page layout. it was the first app I ever saw that allowed text to be put in absolutely any place and orientation on a page!
Of course, it also included all the freedom of the Mac GUI.
My wife does have "Word" installed and keeps forgetting how to use it. Her last 'encounter' was in trying to use the normal 'scale' function in the Print dialog. Apparently, MS deemed that function un-necessary and simply removed it. The simple solution was to open the .docx file in Pages and print it in any way she wanted.
If she absolutely has to send a Word document to the poor Windows users, Pages can alway save her work in that format.
My spreadsheet needs are extremely simple, apparently; I've never needed a formula that isn't available in Numbers. Alas, Apple has crippled both Pages and Numbers in an attempt to make them usable in iOS. I now try to remember to control click files instead of double-clicking to avoid opening their files in the "new" versions".
FileMaker became too expensive to keep updated.
