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All Software | Home » » iWork '09 | | | | | | | Description: | | iWork ’09, Apple’s office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way. Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works. Numbers, with its' great-looking templates, easy-to-create formulas, and dynamic tables and charts, gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. Use Keynote to create your presentations, and you’ll be a hard act to follow. Its' powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow. Packed with over 250 Apple-designed themes and templates—including 60 new designs overall—iWork lets you create projects that look polished from the first page or slide. And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so it’s easy to share your work. | | | Features: | |
• iWork '09, Apple's office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way
• Creating the perfect brochure, flyer, report, or resume is faster and easier than ever with Pages '09
• Create spreadsheets, organize data, and write formulas with simple yet powerful tools using Numbers '09
• With great new features in Keynote '09, creating a show-stopping presentation is surprisingly simple
• Share your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with anyone on a Mac or PC as Microsoft Office or PDF files
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 Apple SoftwareJul 28, 2010
iWork works great. A great business transaction I will continue to buy from this company.
An iWork review mainly about iPagesJul 25, 2010
I have only worked with iPages so far. It works so well that, given the iWork price compared with that of Microsoft Word 2007, I think iWork should get a five-star rating. For all I know, the iWork speadsheet and presentation components work fine. However, even if they did not, iPages makes the whole thing worthwhile for me.
I thus confine my review to iPages.
At first I was concerned that iPages might be a sort of beta version of a product yet to come. Apple, I imagine, might improve on iWork gradually in years ahead. However, what is there now is definitely not, in my opinion, a beta version. In terms of capabilities, I rank iPages a little below Microsoft Word. iPages will not do as many things, but that matters far less than it might seem. Microsoft Word does things I personally believe are not worth doing. For example, does one really need a dozen or more ways to insert a page number?
iPages does do all I need to produce a long narrative not involving footnotes. In my case, the narratives have been draft novels. I have had to take Word 2007 documents, convert them to iPages documents, and then work in rich text format much of the time. All this goes smoothly. I have had to pay attention to where iPages is saving the document. This, however, has not been a problem now that I have learned to be more careful. I think most college students would not have problems doing research papers in iWork.
I think that iPages will work for producing articles for scholarly journals, something I might get around to within a few more weeks. Footnoting as I do it (APA style more or less) seems manageable. You can put into the text special characters like Greek alphabet letters, so equations should be no problem. Inserting objects like statistical package printout might or might not smoothly--I have not tried this yet--but in principle it seems possible. Someone expecting to paste in content from packages like Stata or SPSS might want to ask about iPages' ability to accept such content.
The iPages user interface seems to me better than the ribbon that Microsoft Word went to. I find the iPages user interface better, as well, than the old version of Microsoft Word--the one before their ribbon. I think it has been easier going from Word to iPages in terms of finding things than it was in going from old Microsoft Word to new Microsoft Word. Someone working in Word 2003 might prefer changing to iPages rather than to Word 2007.
If someone needed to produce HTML documents directly from an iPages wordprocessing document, iPages does not seem to have a way for doing that. Microsoft Word 2007 does allow one to go directly to HTML. Also, I use Yahoo SiteBuilder to maintain some web pages. There so far does not seem to be a SiteBuilder version for a Mac. I still use a PC for that. All this means that, if you need to produce web pages, iPages maybe is not going to help much. You might need to buy something like Dreamweaver for your web pages, but, again, you might want to buy something like Dreamweaver, anyhow.
iPages does not seem to have a way to rename a file directly. You have to open the file, save it under the new name, and delete the file. Also, iPages does not clearly handle very well the production of an envelope. That might be me, though. I did not much care for how Word 2007 did envelopes.
Finally, for me, it is refreshing to be out from under Microsoft's software hegemony--at least for Word processing. I imagine not everyone will feel that way, but I find myself feeling good about escaping from Microsoft. If you are tired of what Microsoft gives you in return for the price they extract, iWork could be a very nice surprise. I hope to avoid going back to Microsoft Office. My experience has been that, in my situation, each Microsoft upgrade of Office made the product worse. I now hope that each Apple upgrade of iWork will make the product better.
Versatile, simple, and powerful.Jul 23, 2010
Love it. This has absolutely affected the quality and style of my work in the year that I have had it so far.
Definitely glad I got this over Office. If I owned a business, I would put this on all of my employees computers.
It is streamlined for design.
PAGES:
> "Instant Alpha" is a feature that really attracted me to this. Look it up on Youtube. It makes it REALLY easy to make images stand out in your documents.
> I love the use of palettes to customize settings. Once you get used to the palettes, you can really get a lot done fast. You can hide the palettes if you don't need them, or you can have multiple palettes open if you are working with a lot of things at once (great if you have multiple displays.
* TIP: If you hold down the Alt (or Option) key while clicking a section of the palette, it opens that section as a new palette.
> The colors palette is very useful. Easy to use and powerful as well.
NUMBERS:
> If you know the basics to excel, Numbers isn't too different. It just adds a few things.
> Having multiple independent spreadsheets within one worksheet is very useful. In Excel, you have to merge a lot of cells to do anything at all like that, but the Excel way takes more time and doesn't look good.
Very compatible. You can save as a .doc or .xls files. If that doesn't turn out right, you can always print to pdf.
Lots of little things add up to make it a great product.
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Great Seller! Would do business with them again.Jul 09, 2010
The product showed up on time and was just as they advertised. I would definetly buy from this seller again if I needed one of their products.
why did I wait so long!Jul 05, 2010
This is an excellent product the applications work quickly and flawlessly without all the annoying MS Office stuff. Should have gone this way a long time ago!
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