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Apple iWork 06 (Mac) | 
| From: Apple
Category: Software
New (1) Used (3) from £30.00
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1807
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.2 x 1.1
MPN: MA222Z/A
Model: MA222Z/A
UPC: 885909089772
EAN: 0885909089772
ASIN: B0007LW23A
Release Date: January 27, 2006
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 Response to 'Missing' features October 12, 2007
J. M. Sheehan (Doncaster, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
First off this is a brilliant package.
Noted some comments that there is no italics option on the menu bar - there is! - either place the cursor at the selected point or highlight text and there it is in the context sensitive menu bar. That's the beauty of this app - it only shows the menu/toolbar options you need - select text; it shows text options, select an image; it shows image options, etc.
No word count - again, there is! - select either the block of text or the whole document and right click, select writing tools, statistics and get all the info you want - total words, paragraphs, characters with or without spaces and much more.
It's a shame when apps are incorrectly criticised as this could put off potential buyers of a quite superb set of apps. Definitely a step up in user friendliness than MS Office and hundreds of 's cheaper :-)
very nice... waiting for iWork '07 November 29, 2006
jules
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
iWork is a wonderful and very Apple-style product, including Pages (a Word meets Publisher application) and Keynote, a stunning presentation program.
I'm currently testing it to see if it can replace Microsoft Office for my work activities, and I think when iWork '07 (which will also include an Excel-like application) will be launched, it will be just perfect.
As all Apple stuff, it's very good-looking and pleasant to work with, just needs a few time to get used to it if you come from MS Office.
Pages is more than just a word processor, you can create extremely beautiful documents with it.
Keynote presentations are amazing and can be exported in plenty of formats, like Quicktime movies, .pdf, .ppt, .html etc.
@John Self...
Just click Command+B or Command+I to change highlighted text to bold or italic, or select "show Inspector window" and you'll get a panel with tons of information and settings for your document, including character formatting options.
Cracking easy to use wordprocessor and photo package November 29, 2006
Adam (Midlands, UK)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'll be honest, I've mainly used Pages2 as I put together a regular pamphlet for a local pub. It's great for this kind of task where you want to easily assemble photos and text - the supplied templates are particularly rewarding here and enable a really professional result to be produced without any hassle. As ever there will inevitably be comparisons with Word, which I use regularly at work. Word is fine but at home I prefer this, as it integrates image handling far more seamlessly. If you want to get more complicated that's possible too but even a normally complex task like a mailmerge is simple and straightforward (I did a bit of experimenting the other day and had one up and running in a few minutes). If you're lucky enough to own a Mac you will appreciate the typical thought that has gone in to making the interface as intuitive and stylish as ever. I'd definitely recommend this software for the recreational/semi-serious home user who wants to quickly produce documents with visual flair.
 I work harder now... November 13, 2006
John Self (Belfast, NI)
32 out of 38 found this review helpful
I made the switch a week ago from PC to Mac and am loving my shiny new Apple Macbook Pro. I also bought iWork 06 along with it as I thought I may as well go for the whole Apple experience instead of messing about with Word for Mac.
And so far my experiences of iWork have been mixed. It contains two applications, Keynote (for presentations, like Microsoft Powerpoint) and Pages (word processor, like Microsoft Word). I've only used Pages so far. It opened basic Word documents from my previous computer without a problem, retaining format, font, etc. However it was unable to open a Word document that had a table in it.
Pages is a good-looking and fast word processor but after using it for just a day or two I have found a couple of niggling issues. These seem to arise from Apple's commendable desire to streamline the programs and keep them simple. One thing is that you can't (and I checked their online support pages) have buttons in the toolbar for Italic/Bold etc. The only way to italicise text without using the keyboard is to go to the menu and click Format > Font > Italics. This is incredibly frustrating for someone who used to do it in one click in Microsoft Word. Another annoyance is that you can't do a word count for part of a document, just the whole thing. So if I want to see how many words I've written today, I can't just select the recent text and do a word count. I would have to open a new document, paste it in and do a count there. Infuriating!
These are just two things I've discovered so far, and there may well be others. For all Apple's claims of making things more user-friendly (which is true of the computer itself), this is pretty poor. I'm seriously thinking of getting Microsoft Office for Mac Student Edition just to have Word back again. It may be bloated, but now I know it's the handy basic features that make it bloated!
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