iWork (Apple - $80) has all the smoothness and ease of use you would expect from an Apple product. Numbers, the spreadsheet component, comes with 30 Apple designed templates. Formulas offer over 250 functions, and tables can be moved or added anywhere. You can transform your data into attractive 3-D bar, line, area, and pie charts.

Keynote, the presentation module, comes with 44 Apple designed themes. You can add graphics and make quick edits to them with the built-in graphic tools. Animations offer more than 25 transitions, including 3-D transitions.

With the Keynote Remote (separate purchase) you can turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless remote control for your slideshow presentation that displays the current slide on its own screen along with your slide notes. Internet marketers, however, may be more interested in using the software for creating video presentations which can be posted online, sold or added to an existing product as a bonus.

iWork lacks a database or drawing component. For the database, Apple offers Bento, a slick and well designed database program. To do drawings or diagrams, you will need to invest in a third-party program. Apple also offers a well designed version of iWork for the iPad.

Pages includes over 180 Apple designed templates. The smooth integration of the various aspects of iWork becomes apparent when you copy and paste charts from Numbers into your pages document. The data will be linked so that when you change data in your spreadsheet it will update automatically in your Pages document.

While you can theoretically do anything in NeoOffice that you can do in iWork (and actually much more with NeoOffice's built-in database and drawing tools), you'll find it much easier to learn and to create attractive documents with iWork, Apple's software suite.

Pages' stylesheet feature, for example, is a joy to use, head and shoulders above the corresponding feature in NeoOffice. With a stylesheet, you can set headings and other elements of your document to a certain font, and if all the headings in the document are properly defined, you can change your mind and simply choose a different font in the stylesheet and all the headings in the document will be automatically changed to the desired format. NeoOffice, of course, has this feature; it's just much easier to learn and use in iWork.

Similarly, the table of contents feature in iWork is very intuitive, much more so than in NeoOffice. A table of contents is important for an info product, as it gives a purchaser an immediate and comprehensive overview of the contents of your report. Each heading and subheading will can be set in the document so that it will appear in the table of contents. When you export your document as a PDF, the table of contents will be clickable, and clicking on any item will bring the reader to the corresponding page. Such a feature boosts the professionalism of your e-book, as well as making it much easier for the end user to navigate.