PPT 2011 has also added or improved features to match up with Keynote, including a version of the much-beloved Instant Alpha masking tool to knock out image backgrounds on the fly, on-demand web playback of presentations to remote audiences and more. The return of Visual Basic macros to PowerPoint 2011 on the Mac means that some automation and add-on options will be present there (or easier to implement), versus the limited AppleScript support in Keynote. On the flip side, expert PowerPoint users can point to specific drawbacks in Keynote for professional-level production work: no way to gracefully play audio across multiple slides, no left-side or top pasteboard area to stage animations and no support for the Flash plug-ins and other third-party tools common on the Windows version of PPT. Like many Apple products, Keynote strikes a nice balance between usability and advanced functionality. Alignment guides help you best position objects, and intuitive animation and build schemes make adding some shine to your presentation that much easier. It bests PowerPoint in what matters most in presentations: impact and style. For presentations, Keynote is, for most home office/small business users, superior to PowerPoint. While word processing is, well, word processing, differentiation for presentations often comes in the way the content is delivered, which can overshadow the substance of the content itself. Pages does support tracked changes, which are crucial for most multiparty Word workflows, but if your document roundabout depends on them heavily, you may want to verify that your colleagues are seeing things the way they are supposed to. If you're actively collaborating with Word users on the Mac or the PC, Pages should play nicely most of the time however, you may see some formatting quirks as you save back and forth to the. And if you need page layout flexibility, Pages' page layout tools makes for a more elegant and easy-to-use solution for documents that require you to position things around. However, if the end goal is to get your thoughts on paper and to have the flexibility to format these words the way you want to, Pages will do the job. Sure, things are in different places and the lingo may not be as familiar, and that may take some time getting used to. For basic word processing, Pages is up to the task against Microsoft Word.

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