Home

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.

46 of 57 people found this useful

iWork

Nice software but...

Written by RB from Cobham

09-Mar-2009

I have encountered compatibility issues - images going missing, text changes - when saving files as word docs and sending them onto clients; I don't have this problem when using Microsoft Office on my PC. For this reason, I will not be using iWorks as an alternative to Microsoft Office for business purposes.

However, I have bought a copy so that I can read word docs and excel spreadsheets without having to switch on my pc. It's worth giving this software a free months trial to find out for yourself.

But it is a nice piece of software for the money.

41 of 45 people found this useful

iWork

Mail merge...

Written by LS from BRISTOL

02-Mar-2009

I love Pages a lot. But unfortunately I run a small business that relies on a setup where I'm using spreadsheet data to create documents and Pages just doesn't allow me to 'custom' choose the spreadsheet records individually to create my end document.

Also, as another reviewer has pointed out - when you save your document for compatibility purposes as a .doc (because that's what the rest of the world uses) it won't appear the same as it beautifully did on your machine.

If however, you are using Pages for writing and printing at home, with no need for compatibility worries, then it's freaking awesome.

Numbers is brilliant too, play with the pre-created spreadsheets. Again, saving these as .xls will affect the way they look.

Enjoy!

53 of 55 people found this useful

iWork

Pretty Good. Lacks some Office functionality/ease of use

Written by MS from Reading

22-Jan-2009

I'm new to the Mac and consider myself a intermediate/advanced level user of MS Office. iWork 09 is pretty good and seems to handle most of what I want to do, but it isn't as useable as Office it must be said. For example, want to select multiple objects? Word, just select the arrow tool and drag a box around the things you want to select... in Pages you have to hold down shift and click on every item you want one-by-one. Want to have truly floating objects over text, a logo in a header with some text nearby for example, in Pages I can't stop the text being re-arranged as you position the logo, whereas in Word this is easy.

Overall, pretty good, but don't throw away the copy of Office yet!

27 of 39 people found this useful