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Absolutley Fantastic Product! Worth every penny!

Written by MK from Carrickfergus

11-Jan-2009

I have been using Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 up until this point because iWork wasn't stepping up to the mark! With this release of iWork 2009, it not only steps up to the mark, but goes beyond. Welcome additions and easy to use! Love it! Great work apple!

195 of 220 people found this useful

iWork

Outstanding

Written by NK from AALBORG

27-Jan-2009

Normally, I had to switch to my old Windows-computer to make spreadsheets in Excel, because Numbers simlpy lacked some important features - with iWork '09, I don't have to. Oh, and Pages' full-screen mode is perfect for people (like me), that are easily disturbed by anything other on the screen!

54 of 55 people found this useful

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

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.

46 of 49 people found this useful

iWork

Great for writers!

Written by RF from København S

02-Feb-2009

I'm a creative writer and am just loving Pages. It's a really well thought out interface and just an enjoyable writing experience overall.

The full-screen view is fabulous, very useful if you want to cut out distractions and just write. I like it better for this than the equivalent shareware programs.

I'm not normally a user of templates, but Pages has some pretty tempting ones. The screenplay template isn't perfect, but it's a great place to start. I've been itching to get away from screenwriting software and Pages just might help me pull it off. While it would be possible to do the same thing in Word... I never really enjoyed working with the software enough to make the effort

The other notable thing about pages is it's DTP capabilities. While I don't think I'd use it for prepress, I find it easier than Word for combining text and images in the way I want in documents.

44 of 47 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

An excellent piece of mac software

Written by NC from amersham

25-Aug-2009

Many many times better than office for mac and iwork 08 iwork 09 was the best purchase of my mac carreer

35 of 48 people found this useful

iWork

Handles movies so well

Written by DB from GLASGOW

29-Jan-2009

Since I moved from powerpoint to keynote, I have never looked back. I make heavy use of movies in my presentations and have always found powerpoint unable to cope well with animations, I have had to resort to using uncompressed AVI or QT files that could be many 100's of MB on either Mac or PC versions of powerpoint. Even then movies can be jerky and unpredictable. Keynote handles movies effortlessly no matter what compression is used.
The only problem is that occasionally conference venues don't allow speakers to use their own laptop, and one is forced to use a Windoze box with ppt, with the inevitable loss of performance and quality. Can't blame Apple for that tho'

25 of 28 people found this useful

iWork

Excellent

Written by JH from HELSTON

25-Feb-2009

Covers all my needs and more.
Far smoother, intuitive and imaginative than Office 2008, and so thankfully I can scrap that from my MacBookPro.
Now Safari 4 is making the likes of myself less reliant upon Microsoft!
WELL DONE APPLE !!

23 of 29 people found this useful

iWork

Finally been able to ditch Microsoft Office for Mac

Written by RH from WESTON-SUPER-MARE

19-Jan-2009

Fantastic product! I have now ditched Microsoft Office and enjoy the ability to create exceptionally professional looking documents in no time at all. Keynote and it's amazing slide transitions and object animations (aka Builds) easily made a recent presentation I gave the best looking I'd ever done. Top marks Apple!

14 of 17 people found this useful

iWork

yes you CAN rotate text....

Written by CC from Portlaoise

24-Jan-2009

wake up bud and learn how to use the thing... simple

20 of 32 people found this useful

iWork

Iwork 08

Written by RJ from Leicester

14-Nov-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.

10 of 13 people found this useful

iWork

Brilliant!

Written by CP from North Shields

10-Jan-2009

The first time I used this app I noticed the great differences form '08. The effects are really good.

30 of 55 people found this useful

iWork

Great Product

Written by DH from Gloucester

27-Nov-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.

2 of 2 people found this useful

iWork

amazing product

Written by MG from London

06-Jan-2009

well worth it!!

31 of 97 people found this useful

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!

163 of 200 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.

75 of 84 people found this useful

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