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Good apps, 2007-08-17
These are very easy to use yet powerful applications for OS X. As a Windows transplant, I still I still prefer the "within-one-window" program design. Having couple Mac programs open would some times give me 5 to 6 windows, i.e. font palette, paragraph formating, etc. Very cluttered.
3 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 No Upgrade Pricing, 2007-08-09
Apple has created a new version of iWork, and they provide no upgrade pricing, effectively sticking it to customers and vendors. If you buy this product, you will be stuck with the old version and have to pay FULL PRICE for the new version that contains a spreadsheet application.
And, yes, Apple deleted any comments complaining about the upgrade policy on their discussion boards.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 iWork, 2007-05-09
This is an awesome program for those who are looking for a better presentation. Great software!
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Ease of iWorks, 2007-05-06
I got this mostly for KeyNote. I haven't really done anything but play with it yet, but it looks like it will do a bang up job. I'm an old PageMaker user. Just now starting to work with InDesign, so pages isn't something that I will be using. But my wife uses it! This is a good thing. She dose a news letter for work. Before iWork I did most of the layout for her. But with Pages she now does the whole thing start to finish, and on my Mac on less. (she is a PC user)
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Perfect Apple, 2007-04-08
iWork certainly has enough quirks to solicite criticism: Pages is terribly counterintuitive for a beginner, is not as powerful as Microsoft Word, and the suite lacks a spreadsheet program.
But, I suppose, having been manipulated by Microsoft for all our lives, Apple gets a break. The only reason Pages seems difficult to grasp at first is because we've been force fed Microsoft Word for fifteen years; we're used to seeing the layout a certain way, and that's what we're comfortable with. Apple changed all that with Pages, so there is a learning curve, even though Pages is much simpler to use than Word.
In any case, even if you intend to remain with Microsoft Word (the recent 2007 release being a new leap in programming, by the way) Apple's Keynote presentation software is more than enough to excuse the price tag. Keynote is elegant, easy to use, very powerful, and incredibly addictive.
As is true with all Microsoft software, using PowerPoint is an experience to be dreaded. Not only do you constantly fear of a frozen program but also bugs with which to contend. Now, instead of concentrating on the project, you must also try to remember to backup the information every five minutes, be careful not to hit the wrong keystrokes to solicite an angry, childish response from PowerPoint, and sweetly cajole your computer to remain cooperative until you can save again. And the experience is no less dreadful on a far more reliable Mac. The software just doesn't seem to communicate with the system. PowerPoint is like a spoiled child, constantly throwing tantrums and causing hell.
Keynote is like your neighbor's good son. You wish you could have given birth to such a wonderful child. Well...
Apple's presentation software is, as stated before, simple. No mucking about with it as in PowerPoint. The layout is very intuitive; the templates are shockingly more elegant than whatever PowerPoint gets shipped with; and the software comes with helpful utilities to maximize efficiency and productivity (as well as fun): from powerful calculation tables to shape-forming slide cutters to sticky notes that you can apply to invidual slides as reminders for further development, Keynote has it all to make presentation development a breeze.
iWork is typical Apple...perfect.
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