There are some things you just cant avoid

Ok heres my latest findings.

After much research I have had to conclude the best OS X office suite is................ MS Office.

Its not that there are not other good office suites on OS X. Apples IWork 06 has a great word processor and excellent presentation package (no spreadsheet) but the main problem with all the suites I have trialed over the last month or two is ......MS Word Compatibility.

You cannot survive in the world without being able to read and write MS Word documents and even though most of the suites claim to have this compatibility when they open the documents it doesn't look exactly as it does in Word. Even with documents as simple as my company invoices the layout wasn't close enough. Another issue (that is also solvable in a different way) is fonts. Windows has default fonts that OS X doesn't , when you buy MS Office 2004 for OS X you get all these fonts which makes life a lot easier. So my first purchased software for my MAC is from Microsoft....... life is strange.