We switched our entire law firm over to Apple's Pages a year ago and never looked back. I know the arguments:

(1) "We need features in Word that Pages does not have." Wrong. Pages has nearly everything Word has, plus some. Trust me. Pages will do everything you want and it will do it faster and in a more stable manner. (One thing missing is fields.)

(2) "We need Word compatibility." Pages reads Word documents and exports them. Is the conversion perfect? No. But it is pretty close. And for most people, it IS perfect.

Look. I don't work for Apple. I have no stake in what you do. I am telling you this because I have been there. I know it feels risky. But risky is buying a Macintosh. You did that! If you download the free Pages from Apple and learn it (it is different in many respects from Word), you will love it. See: http://www.apple.com/iwork/

One more thing - if you try Pages and decide it can't do something you want it to do, you are probably wrong. You just need to learn how Pages does it. But Pages is stable, full featured, and fast. Apple did an outstanding job with Pages - they just need to market it further.