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4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 A converted Apple user..., 2007-03-23
I've been using Windows products for as long as I can remember, and only had a few complaints regarding its uses and capabilities. I recently went out on a limb, based on a friend's whole-hearted suggestion, and purchased a Macbook. After the initial day's growing pains, I fell in love with it. It included a 30-day trial of iWork as well as a Windows word processor. Not only was iWork more user-friendly, it ended up being cheaper to purchase. I'm completely satisfied with this product. My needs aren't great, but they're growing in terms of word-processing and presentation, and iWork fills that need very well.
8 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Excellent, 2007-03-08
The fact that far more people use Powerpoint than Keynote is a travesty. Keynote is far superior is just about every aspect that I can think of. It is both easier to use and your can create much more impressive projects. It was extremely easy to learn how to make fairly sophisticated presentations. Keynote just has a WOW factor that cannot be denied.
The word processing program has some nice features, but seems to be kind of limited in its applications. For my uses, Microsoft Word still is far superior. However, the clear superiority of Keynote makes this product a must buy.
1 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
iwork is cool, 2007-01-15
I look forward to creating a web page with iweb.. I expect Mac products to be intuitive.. this is a little more brain engaging.. but i am not As afraid of trying my hand now. Garage band is not my speed. Hope my husband uses it.
10 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
Pages alone makes it worth it, 2007-01-05
I designed a brochure for my restaurant using Pages and it was great. I converted it to a PDF and sent it to be printed. The result was stunning. I would definitely recommend it. Easy to use and powerful.
13 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
 Nice product ruined by poor PDF support, 2007-01-04
I've used iWork for a number of projects including my wedding invitations which were sent to a professional printer and a Quicktime slideshow for job interviews. Both Pages and Keynote are fairly intuitive applications with sleek features allow home users to produce some very nice documents and presentations.
Both applications come with some fantastic templates, though I was disappointed not to find a large collection of user-created templates online.
Pages, in particular, was what I was most interested in, having familiarity with--but not the budget for--both Quark Xpress and InDesign. However, I discovered a major problem with Pages that made the program so unreliable that I'm now very reluctant to use it for anything that will be shared. After producing dozens of resumés in Pages, exporting them to PDF format, and mailing them to potential employers, I ran into a few that would require me to mail a hard copy.
For some reason which I can no longer recall, I decided to print these resumés at a nearby 24-hour print center. So I exported the PDFs, emailed them to the print center, and when to pick them up. Unfortunately, the printouts were a garbled mess of nonsensical characters. So I tried again, but got the same results. Surely this problem was due to the fact that the print center was printing the documents using PCs and not Macs, I thought. But when I opened the documents on my Mac using Adobe products like Reader or Illustrator--rather than Preview--I found that the problem was not limited to PCs.
After a short time on Apple's support pages, I found others with the same problems and there was no patch or update available to fix it. I can no longer trust Pages to produce documents used by anyone other than myself and shudder to think how many of my resumés and cover letters were disregarded when the receiving party was only able to view a mess of random characters. Shame on Apple for not releasing a fix for this known problem in iWork '06 and I can only hope that it will be taken care of in '07.
EDIT: After reading the comment which said that the PDF problem is system-wide and not iWork specific, I've upgraded my rating to **** from **. I'd probably give it 5-stars if some reliable cross-platform export solution had been present (like a reliable PDF export).
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