iWork
Customer Ratings
Based on 32 reviews
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iWork
iwork beats office
Written by MF from Barnet
25-Nov-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.7 of 7 people found this useful
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iWork
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.51 of 54 people found this useful
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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 money18 of 22 people found this useful
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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
Pages still limited
Written by PS from Rangeworthy
19-Jan-2009
Pages still doesn't support multiple tables of contents, for table of tables and tables of figures. Supporting a single bibliography tool is not great especially when that tool is endnote, which costs more than iWork. Other than that it's nearly there.
Disappointing really. Perhaps iWork '10.25 of 30 people found this useful
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iWork
A mixed bag...
Written by FB from London
12-Jan-2009
Numbers09 finally delivers error bars! Pages09 still doesn't cope with tables very well. You can't get a TOC and TOF in the same document, but EndNote X2 is supported. Keynote 09 fixes an export bug that caused presentations with presentation notes to be unreadable in Powerpoint. C'mon Apple... you're nearly there!
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