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Apple iWork 08
Introduction
Apple announced their updated productivity suite, iWork 08, at their special event on August 7, 2007. Included in this somewhat belated update - it's either five months early or seven months late, depending on your point of view - was the eagerly anticipated spreadsheet application Numbers. During the event, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs spent most of the time allocated talking about and showing off the new Numbers spreadsheet application. The Numbers application completes the productivity suite. Apple iWorks now provides a word processor, page layout application, spreadsheet, and presentation. Despite his interest in the Numbers application, the CEO also briefly covered some of the new features of the Pages and Keynote applications. One thing you find after you install iWork '08 is that, when you start, you're offered quick tutorials. If you have time, I'd strongly recommend the initial tour of iWork '08, as well as the video tutorials on basic features and, also, the various features that set the iWork '08 applications apart from their competitors. Apple offers a 30 day free trial of iWork on their website. So how do the new versions of Pages and Keynote compare to their '06 counterparts? How does the suite stack up against Microsoft Office for the Mac?
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3 User Comments 1 - Posted by
Splash6
on August 28, 2007 - 6:59 am Numbers is definitely a noteworthy application. It is the biggest change in spreadsheets since their creation. By creating a series of standalone tables it will soon be possible to use standard libraries of modular tables. It will no longer be necessary to check through every individual cell of a spreadsheet to ensure it is correct, just to check the tables have been wired up correctly. This will be the biggest step forward in the quality of spreadsheets that will ever have occured and can not be far off.
2 - Posted by
Max Slowik
on August 28, 2007 - 12:56 pm So it's a database with a spreadsheet interface?
3 - Posted by
Vic
on October 2, 2007 - 1:46 pm Is there a "Password protect a document" feature in iWork 08 - I can't find it. Help please
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