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worth it for keynote alone

Written by SL from TADWORTH

13/12/2009

Been using MS office for a few months, never liked it much on a PC, liked it even less on the mac, as got so used to things just working!
Downloaded the free trial if iwork , and made a presentation on keynote, wow! Very simple to do and looks great!
Sadly the trial ended and I went back to powerpoint, and I hated it, everything looks so cheesy and unoriginal. Just couldn't bear using it so went and got the full version!

Yet to try pages and numbers properly yet, but considering the low price, seems worth it for keynote alone!

iWork

The best software deal on the market

Written by KM from Melbourne Beach

9/12/2009

I was a great AppleWorks fan, but I absolutely adore iWorks '09. There's a lot to learn in this suite, so I highly recommend getting the iWorks Apple Training Manual by Peachpit Press. Keynote makes a dynamic multi-media presentation. iWorks is quite an accomplishment, and for the price, you won't believe how powerful it is.

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iWork

Iwork

Written by JH from AUSTIN

5/12/2009

OK,
First it took a call to find out how to turn off the auto-formating for outlines. It drove me insane! It was so difficult to find! AAARRRGGGG This should be a right click turn off.
Second, really, no template for labels? Maybe no one else uses the US Mail...???? Maybe it's here...but like everything else hidden in a fourth tier menu ....somewhere. Mail merge would be nice. I miss databases...really. It was easy to customize 50 letters with a mail merge. Gosh that would be nice to do again... sigh... why does progress march backwards? Why make things harder? The best program for dbase and word processing was works from microsoft...the first one, from 20 years ago.

So to sum up...turn off autoformatting with right click, second make a template to make labels. Duh!!! Too Cheap to pay Avery for the use of their name? Of course you are, plus you wouldn't be so ivory tower and independent and cool.
Well, darnit, we are trying to get some work done here and you guys are blowing it.
BLOWING IT! Next time I will stick with Microsoft.

27 of 56 people found this useful

iWork

Disillusioned

Written by JC from Durango

3/12/2009

I bought iWork because the graphics looked sophisticated and convincing, but the functional options are limited, from printing a Keynote presentation handout to constructing a Numbers spreadsheet. This seems like Apple designed an eye-candy version of "Office for Mac." I'm not fond of the appearance and ease of "Office," but it has far more sophistication and flexibility than iWork. Apple, please keep working on iWork!

27 of 39 people found this useful

iWork

RE: It quitet and all my work was gone

Written by RA from Guatemala

3/12/2009

You should try openning the preferences pane and check the box by the "Editing" section that reads "Back up previous version when saving".

10 of 16 people found this useful

iWork

Awesome Product

Written by IW from Port Washington

2/12/2009

iwork is Amazing. It has so many features you wouldn't find on Windows for Mac. It is even compatible for Windows. A Must Buy!

4 of 8 people found this useful

iWork

Gotta be honest...

Written by JK from Lawrence

2/12/2009

When I first got my macbook, I installed Microsoft Word 2008, because that's what I've been using on the PC, and that's the platform I was used to. Recently, I finally took the leap, and installed iWork, after reading/listening to several reviews about why iWork was better.

Aside from the general look which works better on a mac environment than the microsoft program, I found it very easy to use, and it loads up very quickly, minimizing the time I have to wait for the program to actually load. It has yet to crash on me once (while I've experienced lots more crashes on the Microsoft Word), and I love the full screen mode, which keeps my short-attention span on the task at hand rather than have me go back and forth to various programs wasting time. iWork can open .doc & .docx files, and it can also save in .doc mode in case you needed to share it with a windows user. I do think Excel is better than Numbers, but Keynote trumps Powerpoint 100%!

It's my default program, and I simply love this program!

12 of 14 people found this useful

iWork

Amazing'

Written by BB from Oshawa

30/11/2009

This is definatley the BEST program to use for school, teachers, work , anyone! Pages 09' is absaloutley amazing. It has so many outlines of different ways you can make your project. Keynote is incredible, even if you have a terrible piece of information, keynote will make it look stunning and professionally built. And it has soooooo many different options to choose from making it look incredible, and so easy to use!

I just download the trial and I loved it . I'm definatley buying the full version, its worth every penny!

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iWork

Makes MS look like a joke...

Written by RS from Blackwood

28/11/2009

Does anybody else notice that Apple does pretty much everything better than MS. There is no difference here. Pages is one of the most useful tools I use and makes office 2007 a joke. there is no frustrations with the stupid ribbon Microsoft uses. Overall, another great job by Apple.

9 of 9 people found this useful

iWork

Great Product

Written by DH from Gloucester

27/11/2009

Great product. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Much better than Microsoft office in looks and in functionality. Would recommend every time.

4 of 4 people found this useful

iWork

iwork beats office

Written by MF from Barnet

25/11/2009

Pages is far better for documents than word and its page layout is for my purposes is much easier to get results than top end quark or indesign.

Keynote is also superior to powerpoint, although I find excel easier to use than numbers. My main irritant is the use of separate pallete for fonts ( menu) and text alignment ( inspector). It would be much easier in the same place.

8 of 8 people found this useful

iWork

Iwork 08

Written by RJ from Leicester

15/11/2009

This is the best software yet for a mac. I prefer this than Microsoft office. It is simple to use and has got good graphical use in Pages and Keynote.

11 of 14 people found this useful

iWork

Numbers vs Excel

Written by CB from Solihull

9/11/2009

Numbers has some nice features but is underdeveloped and grindingly slow when processing large amounts of data. Had to buy Office just for Excel.

17 of 19 people found this useful

iWork

It quitet and all my work was gone

Written by TL from Bad Homburg

8/11/2009

Pages just stoped and closed and then I realised that all my work was gone, in word it would have been saved!

57 of 198 people found this useful

iWork

Pages, great; Numbers, worst ever

Written by BH from Portland

7/11/2009

While the Pages module is fantastic and a huge improvement from Word, the spreadsheet program Numbers is just about the least useful and most frustrating piece of software I have ever had the misfortune to waste my time on. If you do any kind of higher-level spreadsheet work (than just summing columns of numbers), I advise you not to waste your time even trying to learn to use Numbers. It is plain garbage. Even simple things like trying to select a line to change its color are made impossibly frustrating.
However, kudos to Apple for making Pages! It rocks! (An equal amount to how much Numbers is lame).

80 of 105 people found this useful

iWork

great product

Written by DH from elgin

6/11/2009

will do much more than microsoft office

42 of 72 people found this useful

iWork

Best applications EVER

Written by BH from Oviedo

5/11/2009

This office suite is amazing and I recommend it WAY over MS Office. Everything is perfect and I couldn't ask for a better set of programs. Thanks Apple!

15 of 25 people found this useful

iWork

Pages as a word processor mediocre

Written by PF

3/11/2009

If you are contemplating moving over to pages from MS Office for the word processing application, I can't recommend it. The application is much faster and convenient, since it is built for the Mac and as you probably know, MS applications for the Mac are typically slower and on the Mac rather than a PC. My biggest problem is with Pages...the word processor. Pages does not have some abilities of what a person who needs the program to perform serious word processing. For example; to type many commonly used phrases, Pages does not have the ability to type a few key stroke such a xxx for a phrase like, "Dear Sir/Madam, we are glad to inform you"... I am told that the new version of Leopard (Snow Leopard) allows a user to assign shortcuts and solve the problem, but why a "word processor" would be designed without such basic features is beyond me. On the good side, Pages seems to be able to exchange to and from Word files without any loss of format...which is a must.

3 of 5 people found this useful