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5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Alright, but should have been better, 2006-04-20
Easy to use word processor with a nice, minimalist interface. But it does have some minor problems.
Bad exporting feature aside, iWork's Pages doesn't identify or help correct grammar mistakes in documents. Has an okay "spell check" feature, though. These features are important to me because I write lots of papers. For these reasons, I took off one big star.
7 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
 I love it - and it does have spell check, 2006-03-25
I'm loving the combination of the ease of use of the templates and the flexibility of the program. As an old Unix gearhead, I've long preferred tools such as LaTeX which allow you to focus on content instead of formatting. Here, you can plunk your text into a template and let Apple's designers worry about the formatting, or you can create a set of style names (like "Heading", "Subheading", "Chapter Title", etc.) and then create the formatting for each one later.
Word Processors have had styles before, of course... but Pages makes styles the easiest way to do formatting, so that they actually get used. Visual formatting is used where that makes sense (e.g., placing pictures, rotating them, etc.), and the supplied templates are simply beautiful.
Lastly, to correct a previous reviewer, Pages does have a standard spell check function - go to the Edit menu, select the Spelling sub-menu, and click "Spelling...", and you'll get a spell check of the whole document, via a dialog box that gives spelling suggestions.
4 of 13 customers found the following review helpful:
 Very nice fairly easy to learn... BUT!, 2006-03-16
No spell checker! Oh sure it underscores a word if its spelled wrong, but how about help to correct it. Nope no help there, Got to buy more software, My new iMac is dollaring me to death. Granted AppleWorks 6 didn't have a spell checker but it did have a database, spreadsheet, drawing, and painting applications. So is this an improvement, or something new with less for more money?
After all AppleWorks 6 came with OS 9.1
63 of 65 customers found the following review helpful:
Gret For New Users - Updaters Beware, 2006-03-07
iWork contains both Pages 2 (a word processing/page layout application) and Keynote 3 (a presentation application). These apps are designed to work as intuitively as iTunes, iPhoto and the other applications from the iLife suite. In fact both Pages and Keynote are fully integrated with iLife so adding files from any of the iLife applications to a Pages or Keynote document is as easy as drag and drop.
I mainly use Pages and have created newsletters, envelopes, flyers and personal letters. I'd estimate I worked an average of 20 to 30 minutes on the flyers I have created, and most of that time was spent on the actual text of the document. Similar projects with all the formatting, colors, images and boxes, have easily taken me double that time using Word and AppleWorks.
Pages let you export your document in Word, PDF and HTML formats, however I have found that the exported files sometimes don't perfectly mirror the original. Drop shadows didn't appear and positioning was slightly off. Keynote has similar exporting problems. If you need to share actual files with others, the exporting problems in iWork will give you quite a few headaches. Thankfully, I'm printing out all my documents or sharing them with other iWork users.
The iWork interface is seamless and beautiful and offers many useful templates. These templates are so good that I'd like to se even more of them included. But if the templates don't offer what you're looking for then iWork lets you customize them to your tastes/needs or else create your very own templates from scratch. A few of the included templates give me a bit of lag when using them but it's nothing egregious. Aside from that minor quibble the only complaint I have is the trouble I have exporting my files to other formats.
If you routinely create letters, flyers or presentations, then you owe it to yourself to pick up iWork. Why? Well, iWork works hard for you by expanding your options and helping you create beautiful projects in a fraction of the time it would take with other software. And it does it all with a pleasing visual flair.
However, users thinking of upgrading from iWork '05 should perhaps wait for the next version of this package since nothing that new has beeen inturoduced this time. About the only new feature added to iWork '06 is support for basic table functions. The rest of the additions are new templates and effects, that while georgeous, don't improve or add to the functionality of either application.
6 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
Does What It Says, 2006-03-02
iWork, while basic, does exactly what it says it does: provide a simple, easy way to create eye-catching pages and presentations. I use the software daily, and I've never had any issues or problems.
Good work, Apple!
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