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Is iWork compatible with Office files though? That's going to be the sticking point for people who had been using it and lost access...
As far as I can tell, yes โ and so is LibreOffice, since people are talking about that one, too. And I suspect they both have the same limitation โ encrypted Office files. So yes, I can read .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files. I can't read Publisher (.pubx) files, but neither can Mac Office users โ Microsoft never released Publisher for Mac. I can then write them to the iWork formats. I can also take an iWork document and export to Office. I suspect Office can import iWork files. Office interoperability is mostly a solved problem, though I think there are a few outlier cases.
Yes, it opens the files and can work with them. However to save them back to the original filetype, you need to export