iWork
iWork, Apple’s productivity suite, is the easiest way to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layout are easy using Pages. Numbers gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. New cinematic animations, transitions, and effects in Keynote will keep your audience captivated. And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so sharing your work is even easier.
Install the iWork Family Pack* on up to five Mac computers in your household.
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Overview
Pages ’09 
Creating the perfect brochure, flyer, report, or resume is faster and easier than ever.
- Choose from 40 new Apple-designed templates (over 180 total).
- Focus on your writing with new full-screen view.
- Organize your ideas with dynamic outlines.
- Customize your documents using mail merge with Numbers.
- Insert equations with MathType 6 (sold separately).
- Create bibliographies with EndNote X2 (sold separately).
- Open, save, and email Microsoft Word files from within Pages.
Numbers ’09
Create spreadsheets, organize data, and write formulas with simple yet powerful tools.
- Easily create formulas, using visual placeholders with plain language text.
- Perform calculations using over 250 functions.
- Organize your data instantly using Table Categories.
- Check your calculations at a glance with Formula List view.
- Create two-axis charts and combine line, column, and area series in a single mixed chart.
- Choose from twelve new Apple-designed templates (30 total).
- Open, save, and email Microsoft Excel files from within Numbers.
Keynote ’09
Now creating a show-stopping presentation is surprisingly simple.
- Easily create sophisticated animations with Magic Move.
- Add dramatic object and text transitions using new visual effects.
- Visualize your data with new styles and animations for 3D charts.
- Dramatically reduce file size without compromising quality.
- Create dynamic flowcharts and diagrams using connection lines.
- Choose from eight new Apple-designed themes (44 total).
- Open, save, and email Microsoft Powerpoint files from within Keynote.
- Compatible with the Apple Keynote Remote App for iPhone
Most Useful Reviews
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iWork
The official MS Office Killer
Written by GO from Livermore
Jan 7, 2009
iWork 09 is now my official one stop work and presentation shop. iWork 08 was pretty close but Numbers from 08 lacked the ability to do any sort of trend lines which has been rectified in iWork 09. The added templates in pages are also a breath of fresh air as well as the enhanced 3D animations in Keynote. There are a ton of other nice refinements that have been made to iWork for its latest addition and it would take me forever to talk about them all. I guess the main point is if you have been looking for something to completely replace MS Office it now exists and for a price that blows me away. I would like to thank the development team at apple for really listening to there user community. …More
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iWork
Could be better
Written by SB from North Las Vegas
Jan 9, 2009
--It's good to see Apple doing what MS never could do right. From the beginning, MS products have been riddled with crashes and quirky output whereas these three Apple products work quite well. I highly recommend the 30 day trial version if you've never used these before.
--Pages goes beyond MS Word in that it's more of a competent page layout program (like Adobe's PageMaker or FrameMaker) than a simple word processor. MS Word is better at some things, but Pages is more powerful and stable than the MS product. Word just cannot make a big document without stumbling, often losing data in the process. But Pages can handle the big jobs with flare!
--Numbers does a better job at many things than Excel does (mostly with charts and graphs) but has a distinct drawback for those who want to label narrow columns with vertical text... it can't rotate text like Excel. I found Numbers to be a little odd in the way it does things (I've been using Excel for over two decades, so that may have something to do with it) but if it rotated text I'd learn to get over the differences and drop Excel.
--Keynote is better than the Mac version of PP, but the XP version of PP can stand up pretty well to Keynote. Still, I prefer the Mac OS to Windose so PP is no longer used.
--Overall, I like all three and the price cannot be beat, but I would have really appreciated rotatable text in this version of Numbers. Heck, if the dweebs at MS can do it, so should the geniuses at Apple. …More1563 of 1770 people found this useful
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iWork
Well Put Together
Written by DW from Annandale
Jan 7, 2009
Although some features don't get much of an upgrade over iWork '08, the new version of iWork is well worth the upgrade! It features a host of features that were missing in previous versions, as well as many new themes and better integration for Microsoft Office files. As an added bonus, it loads a lot faster than previous versions of iWork and has so far been very stable. I would give this product 6 stars if it were possible, so, go and buy it (or download the 30 day free trial and give it a test run). …More
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Most Recent Reviews
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iWork
Simple and great!
Written by SS from Alcobaça
Dec 18, 2009
I just switched from MS Office to iWork '09 and I don't regret a thing! It's fast and very easy to use and it includes everything you need! no weird files from MS Office that are spread all over your computer, iWork '09 keeps everything where it's supposed to be!
Try it and you'll not regret it! …More10 of 11 people found this useful
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iWork
Good for presentations, bad for exporting images
Written by GD
Dec 17, 2009
I have been using iWork for a long time now, mostly with keynote, and i'm more than happy with the ease of work when preparing presentations using keynote.
recently i had to export high quality images from keynote into TIFF, and to my amazement, the quality of those images was terrible. images came out pixelated and my only way put was to print the keynote presentation into a postscript file, and then export it to PDF or TIFF. this also degraded the quality, but not to the extent it did when exporting directly to TIFF. so in this respect, keynote was problematic for me. other than that, it's a great package. …More10 of 11 people found this useful
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iWork
iWorks is complicated—hard to learn and hard to use
Written by JB from Chapel Hill
Dec 14, 2009
I have long been a satisfied user of AppleWorks. It was sophisticated enough to handle my needs for word processing, spread sheets, and data bases. But Apple Works is now hard to find and no longer supported by Apple. I regretted this. Nevertheless, I was willing to try the new iWorks.
Well, I've tried IWorks. Learning it is hard. It is much more complicated than I need. Too many bells and whistles. Too many adjustments of this and that. In the past Apple has traditionally developed products that are intuitive and easy to learn. iWorks is not in this tradition. I am unsure whether a simpler revision is possible.
Perhaps Apple can develop an "iWorks for Dummies" for the rest of us. Including a simple database would help, too. …More23 of 38 people found this useful
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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Can PC users open my iwork documents?
- Asked by JN from london
- Oct 8, 2009
Best Answer
not in a literal sense, because of it saving in a iWork file such as .pages or .numbers, which PCs just dont like. HOWEVER you can export it as a word document or excel file by going to file>export and then choosing what you want a copy of it as, the only downside to this is you may loose some of the fonts and formats as they are not on PC's word processors or whatever program …More
- Answered by AB from Bristol
- Oct 16, 2009
- 31 of 33 people found this useful
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Can I open Microsoft Word files with Iwork?
- Asked by RP from CRAIGAVON
- Oct 6, 2009
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Yes, you can open .doc and .docx files in iWork; although depending on what fonts you've downloaded, your mac may have to convert the font from calibri or other word fonts. …More
- Answered by TK from Kamloops
- Oct 7, 2009
- 35 of 36 people found this useful
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Will iWork open and save to Microsoft Publisher?
- Asked by CO from Brownsburg
- Oct 7, 2009
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Sorry, iWork will not open nor save to the .PUB file format used by Microsoft Publisher. To my knowledge, there aren't many programs save MS Publisher that will read and write that format. …More
- Answered by DT from Tooele
- Oct 12, 2009
- 6 of 6 people found this useful
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Most Recent
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MacBook: do you need both IWork and Windows Office software
- Asked by MW from rowayton
- Dec 24, 2009
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Can all the documents I have in Word be transferred to Pages?
- Asked by PS from Boca Raton
- Dec 21, 2009
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If I buy iwork 09 online via the Apple Store will I receive a physical copy on DVD in the post or will it be a download?
- Asked by DM from YORK
- Dec 19, 2009
