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8 of 34 customers found the following review helpful:
 Pages is still useless., 2007-09-02
I recently downloaded the free trial of iWork 08, to see if Apple had managed to fix the Appleworks import crashing bug that has been present since the original release of iWork. They have not. In addition, they have discontinued support for Appleworks. If you're considering purchasing iWork with the idea of reading all your old Appleworks documents in this new post-Appleworks world, you will be sorely disappointed, as Pages bombs on importing about half the Appleworks documents I've tested with it. Appleworks 6, by contrast, opens them without complaint.
3 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
 Better and Better than MS Office, 2007-08-31
As with other Apple programs...it looks good and is more intuitive out of the blocks than M S. I use m s office all day at work and get tired using software that has a clunky user interface created by unimaginative nerds from the Apple commercials. MS programs by comparison are just a small step above DOS.
Come to think of it...why do people even use windows pc's anymore?
When I switch from my Mac to my PC, I sit and wait ...and wait...and wait...and then it freezes......and then I switch back to my Mac.
I do my Keynote presentations at home...export as Power Point..then load at work.
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Very good but still lacking support of RTL languages, 2007-08-26
It is an excellent little cheap office suite. Offers a quite good compatibility with MS Office and remains powerful enough for a lot of jobs, with an interface really more intuitive, simple and easy-to-use than OpenOffice.
But this 3rd version is still lacking of good support with RTL languages wich is a pitty since TextEdit and almost all Cocoa softwares support them quite well. Also it is a pity because it as better support of MS Word and better desktop publishing functions than Mellel.
5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Fantastic, 2007-08-25
I've been using Apple's Office-type offerings since Appleworks 1, and iWork '08 is the apotheosis of the line. I find the ease of use and visual quality of Pages to be top rate, Keynote continues to blow away Powerpoint, and the new Numbers is a dream to use. Apple continues to advance software development beautifully.
35 of 37 customers found the following review helpful:
Great Product at a Great Price, 2007-08-24
This is a great office suite at a great price compared to MS Office for the Mac. Keynote is a presentation program like PowerPoint but is a much better product. The templates which are included are beautiful and rich and can incorporate drawings, photographs, documents and tables by simply dragging or inserting them. The program also has a wonderful feature that automatically allows you to find exactly where to place such items if you want them to be, for example, perfectly centered. And of course you can open Power Point files with it and you can, if you want, save your own presentations in PPT format to share with Windows people. The spreadsheet is also terrific. It is easy to have multiple tables on the same worksheet, and has some very attractive templates ready to use. It also has some neat features which permit you to "slide" or "step" values up or down within limits you define. I prepared a retirement planning spreadsheet yesterday which permits me to consider variable yield and withdrawal rates. If you insert a chart in your spreadsheet linked to this data, it will automatically redraw your chart. It's just great. Mossberg's column criticized it for having fewer built in formulas than Excel. In fact, Numbers, which is the spreadsheet program, contains 150 built in formulas, including the ususal ones for finance, statistics, etc. If there are fewer formulas, I don't know how important they might be to you--but it has everything I need. Finally, Pages is the word processing component of the program. It looks a bit lighter than Word, but it turns out that that is only because it doesn't have the hundreds of toolbars and buttons that Word clutters up the screen with. But in my experience it does everything Word does, only in a much more attractive way. iWork does not come with a built in calendar, email, or contacts program, but that is because Macs all come with those included so you don't need another add on.
iWork will open any Office document and you can then save it as an iWork document or (if you insist or need to share) you can save it in the Microsoft format (.doc, .xls., .ppt extensions.)
All in all, a much better and cheaper mouse trap.
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