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Claris, now theres a name from the past. Apple used to develop Claris branded software for its machines and Macs would invariably come with a basic suite of office tools Times have changed and Apple now prefers to brand everything "i" so its iWork an...
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With its 08 release, Apple's iWork has finally grown up into a fully-fledged suite. For the bargain basement price of $109 you'll get Pages, a word-processor/page layout application, and Keynote, which is like PowerPoint but with more – and increasingly c...
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With iWork 08, the latest generation of its office suite, Apple has given Mac users a powerful alternative to Microsofts Office for Mac. This new version finally offers an alternative to Excel called Numbers, a spreadsheet tool unlike any that has co...

Apple iWork 08s three applications have excellent comment and mark-up support; the ability to open documents saved in the native Open XML format used by Office 2007 for Windows; Page Layout mode gives consumers much of the capability of professional...

We would have preferred to see Apple include some layout-only, contentless templates for Numbers and Pages in Apple iWork 08; clumsy way of creating a layout in Word Processing mode that you can make in Page Layout The Final Word Users comfortable wit...

Users comfortable with Microsoft Office may find it takes time to get used to Apple iWork 08. Advanced Word and Excel users, especially those who rely on specialised features and functions, will probably find Apple Pages 08 and Apple Numbers 08 to b...
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If iLife is ‘office for your home life’, then iWork is ‘iLife for your office’. It’s the older, grown up sibling of iLife that handles work stuff: writing documents and doing presentations. Not that many people use iWork thou...

Good value for money, easy to use, genuinely useful templates, imports and exports to Word/Excel/PowerPoint, integrates nicely with OS X...

Pages and Numbers lack some of the high-end features of Word and Excel, can’t export Open XML documents Min specs: 500MHz G4 or later, 512MB RAM, 1GB disk space, OS X 10.4.10...

For £55, it’s hard to fault iWork ’08. Keynote thrashed PowerPoint back in 2003, and it just keeps getting better, Pages isn’t a Word-killer, but it’s a good low- to mid-range word processing alternative. Numbers, however, may well...
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In the world of Windows, Microsofts mighty Office suite has few (if any) serious competitors. Things are very different for Mac users, with Apples iWork bundle presenting a delightfully different take on word processing, number-crunching and present...
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With iWork 08, the latest generation of its office suite, Apple has given Mac users a powerful alternative to Microsofts Office for Mac. This new version finally offers an alternative to Excel called Numbers, a spreadsheet tool unlike any that has...

Users comfortable with Microsoft Office may find it takes time to get used to Apple iWork '08. Advanced Word and Excel users, especially those who rely on specialised features and functions, will probably find Apple Pages '08 and Apple Numbers '08 to...
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Can Apples iWork take on Microsofts Office?...

Keynote animation options, Pages simple design, Numbers ability to paste images into cells...

Pages doesnt have Auto-format list from start, Numbers isnt as powerful as Excel...

Good for the price, but dont expect to not be irritated by some of its problems...
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zdnet.co.uk Updated: 2016-11-14 23:52:22
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Although Microsoft Office 2007 offers deeper features, particularly for number-crunchers, Apples iWork 08 is a strong Mac productivity package and a pleasure to use.

The new Numbers spreadsheet software rounds off this suite, which offers attractive and intuitive interfaces, Solid new features for image editing, page layout and printing, Applications integrate well with each other, with iWeb and with Apple iLife, A...

Lacks an email application, Pivot tables and Visual Basic macros not supported, Lacks live, inperson tech support...

Although Microsoft Office 2007 offers deeper features, particularly for number-crunchers, Apples iWork 08 is a strong Mac productivity package and a pleasure to use...
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Zdnet.com.au Updated: 2016-11-14 23:52:22
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The $99 iWork 08 is a solid deal for anyone needing an affordable office suite for the Mac. Apple has added the spreadsheet application Numbers, an elegant no-brainer for anyone migrating from Microsoft Excel. In the past, many Mac aficionados bought...

Attractive and intuitive interfaces, Solid new features for image editing, page layout and printing, Applications integrate well with each other, with iWeb, and with Apple iLife, Reads Microsoft Office 2007 files...

Lacks an email application, Pivot tables and Visual Basic macros not supported...

Although Microsoft Office 2007 offers deeper features, particularly for number crunchers, Apple iWork 08 is a strong Mac productivity package and a pleasure to use.
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Apples sleek and easy-to-use productivity suite encourages creativity.

If nothing else, and there is a great deal else, Apple gives its users a real bargain with iWork 08. While not as dazzling as its multimedia cousin, this package of word processing/layout (Pages), and presentation (Keynote and Numbers) brings to work...
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$79 (single-license); $99 (family pack) — shop for this item Several months later than expected, Apple has released the third edition of iWork, the Mac makers productivity software suite. Returning cast members include Keynote, the presentation prog...
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computershopper.com Updated: 2016-11-14 23:52:22
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You wont catch us arguing about the immense popularity (and ubiquity) of Microsoft Office. But how many users of the apps in the Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Windows, and Entourage on Mac OS X) actually take full...

Clean, easy-to-navigate interface; variety of file-export options, including PDF and Microsoft Office; integration with Apple iLife media software; nice selection of premade themes...

Minor file-conversion issues with Microsoft Office; no mail/scheduling program; cannot save as Office file natively (must export); no support for saving to Open XML...

For Mac users who want the core functions of an office suite without the unnecessary baggage—or high price—iWork 08 is simple, elegant, and easy to use...
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iWork '08 is Apple's successor both to iWork '06 and to AppleWorks, which was discontinued a week after the '08 product was launched. AppleWorks was aimed at small business, with a fairly traditional set of applications: word processor, spreadsheet, prese...

For around £50 (£15 more than in the US, by the way), you get an exceptional integrated suite for those who don't need the power nor the price of Microsoft Office. With Microsoft's new Mac Office not due until next year, there's a good window for iWork '0...
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v3.co.uk Updated: 2016-11-14 23:52:22
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Apple adds a spreadsheet to its low-cost office suite...
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When you hear that Apple has released a new product, you think of a sleek Macintosh laptop, or perhaps a beautiful program for editing videos. But a spreadsheet? Not a spreadsheet. After all, expertise with spreadsheets is the sort of computing skill a...
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