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6 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great software for the price, 2005-07-20
I bought a Mac G4 laptop computer in November of 2004, primarily for word processing as well as on the go internet access. I write for an APA four times a year, and I am also the secretary for the local knitting guild. I had been using Microsoft Word on my Gateway desktop for months. I was getting tired of the dull looking submissions and wanted to find something that would give my documents a little more zip and polish. Adobe would have been my first choice but it was a bit out of my price range.
Enter Iwork. Reasonably priced and for the most part easy to use. So far I've only dabbled with Pages and I must say I am very impressed with how slick this part of iWork is. I can drag text from presaved word documents and lay it out on any of the preset templates or make up a template of my own. I can bring in pictures and graphics and add them where I want, when I want. What's even better? I can export the pages document into different formats (including .pdf) which allows me to save a document to disk, take it over to my Windows desktop and either print or upload the file without the computer having a fit.
In short: I'm extremely pleased with what I've been able to do with this program so far and I look forward to seeing what other surprises Iworks has in store for me. :D
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Wonderful, 2005-07-09
Here *was* my dillema. I wanted to create awesome looking documents. My choices were Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign. Word is too unforgiving and InDesign, while great, has a high learning curve and is too cumbersome for casual users. Pages is the perfect combination of both. You can even export it into Word for PC users (or if you work regularly on both formats). With Pages, you can create very professional-looking documents that will rival what your co-workers created in InDesign.
In my opinion, Pages is much better than Word. While I like Keynote (which you can also export into PowerPoint) better than Power Point, I still think PowerPoint is a very good application. At $79, this product is well worth the buy.
5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Great package for work and efficiency., 2005-06-02
I bought this product about a month ago and iWork made my life more efficient with all the easy functionality and integration that Apple has created. It is fully integrated with .Mac and your on-going web\work sites. The main application I use is Keynote which is an easy to use presentation sofware that places all the needed functionality for a quick presentation. Keynote has a very easy to use interface and similar functions to Pages which makes the transition from app to app very easy. The only downside I thought was the ramp up time to understand and get use to the apps.
Recommend it for all Mac users new and veteran.
11 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
Don't Underestimate This Program., 2005-05-06
A number of reviewers have commented upon how easy this program is and, I suppose, in one sense it is, especially if you stick to using the templates. However, as one who has had occasion to work with "Adobe Pagemaker," this program can do sophisticated page layout and, as such, there will be a learning curve for the inexperienced.
But, the User Manual is good and there are good books coming out, like one from Visual Start in July, that will help people learn.
It is wrong to think of this program as a word processor "in competition with" Word. "MS Word" is a robust word processor; "Pages," as its name implies, is a page layout program. Having also worked with "MS Publisher," the real point of comparison and not "MS Word," "Pages" far exceeds "Publisher" in capabilities and yet for relatively simple layouts is as easy as "Publisher" to use.
I have not as yet put any real strain on the program, but at first blush, on my Powerbook G4 1.5, speed of operations is just fine. Yes, as a few reviewers have pointed out, some of the palettes could be more elegantly combined. One tends to get a clutter of open palettes. But, these are refinements that will be made in future editions, I am sure.
Bottom line: If you want to layout pages with a lot of the sophistication possible in the more expensive "Quark" and "PageMaker" programs; if you want to be able to export your documents to universal portable PDF file format and print out beautiful documents; if you want to pay, basically, only about $40 for these benefits ["Keynotes," the other half of iwork represents another $40], then buy "Pages."
And, if you are a novice with respect to not only page layout programs but also to very robust word programs like "Word," don't expect that everything will be simple. You will have to learn, but you will be rewarded relatively quickly.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
I almost didn't buy it...., 2005-05-05
I thought, "I have MS Office for the Mac, why do I need iWork?" Was I wrong!
Okay fine I suppose I don't really NEED it. But it is a great program, and worth the price. The ability to export my work as a .pdf file is worth the price by itself. The Pages interface is much better, cleaner than Word. And the templates are suprisingly useful. I created a web page by costomizing a template and exporting it as HTML. I twas easy and quick and the result looked great. Most of the people I work with are PC users and because they were unfamiliar with pages the web Page looked fresh, not like a modified copy of someone elses work.
I use my Mac for research mostly and the ability to save documents as .pdf files is very valuable as they are searchable. With Tigers ability to search the text within a .pdf I can now save my work as a .pdf and later find everytime a particular work appears in the fines I've created. This has made cross-refrecing very easy and fast. I now use a program called Pyramid to create a "mind map" of my work and create links from the "map" to refrences in the .pdfs.
I don't use Keynote as much. I t more visially appealing than Powerpoint and pretty easy to use. The ability to use Quicktime movies in the presentation is helpful and the ability to export as a Powerpoint file is nice.
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