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A pretty good purchase

Written by DG from Tullamore

24-Aug-2009

Bought this a few months ago because Office for Mac just didn't work for me and I really didn't like it, it just seemed to be too slow. So got iWorks and its a treat to use.

Pages, is very nice to use, the inspector has all the functions you need when writing your docs and you can drag it around the screen to suite your needs. Pages all in all is a very nice piece of software for the price. The layout of the UI is very intuitive and just feels like every thing is where it should be. Any advanced functions you need are in the inspector and you don't find yourself spending too long searching for the option.

Keynote, is very good if not better alternative to PowerPoint. The templates are very crisp, clean and very pleasing to the eye when your doing your presentations. When its connected to a projector it has pretty much the same functions and display as PowerPoint on the second screen

Numbers is very good at working with small sets of numbers. The graphs that you can create again are more clean and crisp then the Office counterpart. But when you have large data sets in the range of thousands, Numbers gets very very slow, much slower that it should be. It is still usable but you could be waiting for 2-4 seconds for any mouse click or update.

All in all, a great alternative to Outlook, the fonts, graphics and design of the UI make it very nice to use and a pleasure to work with.

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iWork

Blows Office Away

Written by SG

20-Aug-2009

After using Office for Mac, I decided to make the switch to iWork and never looked back. It's intuitive, if you want to do something, there's a button that allows you to do it. The Inspector is brilliant, and I've created some well laid out things in Pages, some easy to ready spreadsheets in Numbers and some amazing Slideshows in Keynote!
Great suite of products, and the perfect addition to any Mac.

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iWork

Almost there

Written by JK from PRESTON

28-Jul-2009

I mostly use the Pages feature of iWork. As a word processing program its pretty good but still needs extra refinements. Some shortcomings already mentioned - mine are:
1. No automatic Drop Cap function
2. No page imposition function for booklet printing
3. Some functions don't save accurately in .doc or .docx

27 of 31 people found this useful

iWork

Perfect!

Written by MB from Normandy

01-Jul-2009

I love iWork! It is so nice to use after using word! It just works. No annoying little bugs and habits. Everything is really easy to use, and the help is really good and quick to find an answer. Have found compatibility with office to very good. Excellent software, couldn't be happier with it!

33 of 38 people found this useful

iWork

great product

Written by PD from Inverness

19-Jun-2009

have only limited usage but, so far great product.

feature rich, smart and pleasing interface, this does the business for sure. share option, is very clever, particularly as you can then decide to send as pdf, work, excel etc. is good

opening up old ms office files, does lead to some loss in functions/format (hence 4 stars).

if you have loads of ms office files, with lots of custom formatting, then perhaps the way is with MS; if you have simple/std ms files this is a excellent buy

numbers is particularly good

well worth the money

18 of 22 people found this useful

iWork

Great Improvement

Written by PG from Liverpool

02-Apr-2009

Pages '09 wipes the floor with M'Word. And a vast improvement on iworks '08. Definite must have for any Mac. Only four stars because unlike M'word it doesn't have an equation editor built in, and if you want that your told you have to fork out an extra £50 odd to a different company.

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iWork

iWork

Written by JW from LONDON

24-Mar-2009

Using Pages in iWork and enjoy its lightness and comprehensiveness. Very responsive and ease of use. The comments bar for making notes to text in progress is a great aid and very clear: just what an Apple Mac needs - at last a great word processing program. Still a few minor things to extend the app, the menu bar could do with a more polished aesthetic - better cosmetics: but all in all a great move away from Word. No problem experienced at all, with documents import/exported to Word, PDF, or PC app or platform. The family pack of 5 is great value. Works with boxes and has great DTP capabilities for image/text/design etc: it is hefty competition for a lot of other packages, one I can only recommend.

51 of 55 people found this useful

iWork

Its good to Share

Written by MH from Ashford

09-Mar-2009

I must say that the sheer ability to share numbers, pages and keynote documents with a number of people at the same time is somewhat special. The formatting of the documents are retained and the ability to let people comment and then download whatever version you specify is a real treat. Well done apple for this piece of '09. However, not all greatness, the ability to share the same document formatting into the (sadly true) common .doc file type is virtually non existent, even when using cross platform settings such as same fonts and text alignment and tables. For this reason I have to go from a potential 4 stars to 3.

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