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 Ultimate productivity November 19, 2008
The best productivity suite for OS X at a fraction of the price of Microsoft Office.
Fantastic for creating designerly documents with the built in templates, or use the powerful editing tools to create our own.
Keynote is THE ultimate in presentation slideshow apps. No contest.
 iWork 2008 August 13, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
..ermm , i was expecting bit more from Apple with this software. I know it`s cheap but even ... more features guys ! C`mon !
 Great product suite - but not Office June 28, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
As a new Mac convert, I have spent over 20 years with PC's, working with the usual Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). This package came pre-installed with a 30 day demo. I tried it out and it is rather good.
Pages (Word) can be used like a standard word processor or like a DTP package, linking boxes of text to flow from one part to the other. Inserting graphics is easy and changing the layout is even easier.
Numbers (Excel) is like a simpler version. A neat thing is if you highlight a group of numbers, it lists the total, average, mean etc at a glance.
Keynote (Powerpoint) is easier to work with than Microsoft's version, and the transitions are far more polished and better animated.
It is not Office, as in the features are far less. However, for the home user you would only ever use 5% of the Office suite's capability, so iWork is a good cheaper alternative where you would not need to use the complex hidden features of Office.
I have also tried the free OpenOffice suite, and although quite good (especially since its free), it does not have the polish and integration of iWork. Also, being made by Apple, iWork ties in better with the Apple OS, and seems to be part of the OS rather than a separate suite. It is recommended for all Mac and Macbook owners.
Smashing June 18, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
These applications are brilliant in so many ways.
Keynote is best of breed - you simply will not find a better application for creating slick presentations.
Numbers is very good too, better than Excel in my opinion. That said, many people don't really 'get' the tables idea, preferring instead the 'one-large-sheet' approach of Excel and OpenOffice's Calc. If you take time to get to know Numbers, you will probably find that your spreadsheets become much more organised and compact. They look good too!
Pages is the weakest link; it can be very fiddly to layout headers, footers and tables. It's not bad, mind you, and it outputs pages of the highest quality, it's just not fantastic in the way that Numbers and Keynote are. Because it's Mac, it can create PDFs out of the box. The PDF files it generates are of an amazingly high quality.
Overall, I would not hesitate to recommend iWork, especially at the price. If you aren't sure whether to buy, you can download a demo from Apple and try it for yourself. It's worth the price for Keynote alone.
A great package ! May 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought both Office 2008 and iWork a while ago.
The way Office 2008 is a major disappointment, iWork is a great surprise !
The ease of use and elegant design in iWork, makes it a pleasure to work with. Pages and Numbers have more than enough functions for the "ordinary" user - like me.
Before you waste a small fortune on Office 2008 - please, check out this great package from Mac !!
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