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Title: Apple iWork '08 Preview - Office Software
Summary: Apple's new iWork becomes a more well-rounded productivity package by adding Numbers for spreadsheets. Pages and Keynote include some nifty visual enhancements too.
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Title: Apple iWork '08
Pros: 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
Cons: Lacks an e-mail application, Pivot tables and Visual Basic macros not supported
Verdict: 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.
Summary: Apple's new iWork becomes a more well-rounded productivity package by adding Numbers for spreadsheets. Pages and Keynote include some nifty visual enhancements too.
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73/100 |
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Title: Apple iWork '08
Pros: 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; and
Cons: Apple iWork '08 lacks an e-mail application; pivot tables and Visual Basic macros not supported.
Verdict: 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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Title: Apple iWork '08
Pros: The suite is now complete, Better compatibility with Office, Numbers superior to Excel, New animation tools in Keynote, New themes
Cons: No link between Numbers and Pages
Verdict: For many, iWork is now the perfect office suite. Accessible, compatible, polished and cheap. A triumph
Summary: Welcome, folks, to the first real release of iWork. Yes, we know the suite made its official debut two-and-a-half years ago, but it's only now, with the spreadsheet application Numbers joining Pages and Keynote, that it has become a proper, grown-up offic
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Title: Apple iWork '08
Verdict: 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 be l
Summary: With iWork '08, the latest generation of its office suite, Apple has given Mac users a powerful alternative to Microsoft's Office for Mac.
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Title: Review: Apple iWork '08
Summary: Apple's iWork bundle presents a delightfully different take on word processing, number-crunching and presentations.
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Title: Apple iWork '08
Pros: Apple iWork '08's 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 too
Cons: 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
Verdict: 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 be l
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90/100 |
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Title: Apple iWork '08
Pros: 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; and
Cons: Apple iWork '08 lacks an e-mail application; pivot tables and Visual Basic macros not supported.
Verdict: 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.
Summary: The $79 iWork '08 appears to be a good deal for anyone needing an affordable office suite for the Mac. Apple has finally added a spreadsheet application. At first glance, Numbers is an elegant no-brainer for anyone migrating from Microsoft Excel. In the p
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73/100 |
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Title: Apple iWork '08 Keynote
Summary: Apple iWork '08 Keynote is an affordable PowerPoint alternative with some very slick tricks.
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80/100 |
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Title: Apple iWork '08 - Mac
Pros: Keynote animation options, Pages simple design, Numbers ability to paste images into cells
Cons: Pages doesn't have Auto-format list from start, Numbers isn't as powerful as Excel
Verdict: Good for the price, but don't expect to not be irritated by some of its problems
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80/100 |
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Title: Apple iWork 08
Pros: Much cheaper than Office, especially for multiple licenses, Only one edition to choose from - MS Office has eight different bundles, Apple has a specific page to send feedback for bugs and feature requests to developers, Apple has provided introduction vi
Cons: First version of Numbers - minor bugs and a few missing features, The fact that rest of the world is using MS Office, Some features aren't supported if you export to an Office document,
Verdict: At only $79 for a single license, and $99 for a five-license family pack (compared to a single license $149 (MSRP) Student & Teacher version of Microsoft Office), you can say the price is certainly right for Apple's iWork suite. Especially considering
Summary: 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, a...
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Title: Review: Apple iWork '08 office software
Pros: Programs are simple but powerful Very good value for money
Cons: No database software
Verdict: There's been a Mac version of Microsoft Office for years, but Microsoft doesn't make a Mac version of its less-expensive Works suite for home users. So, a couple of years, ago, Apple stepped in and came up with its own suite called iWork.
Summary: Apple adds a spreadsheet to its low-cost office suite
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80/100 |
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Title: Apple iWork '08
Pros: 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
Cons: Lacks an e-mail application, Pivot tables and Visual Basic macros not supported
Summary: Apple's new iWork becomes a more well-rounded productivity package by adding Numbers for spreadsheets. Pages and Keynote include some nifty visual enhancements too.
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