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Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: MA790Z/A
Model: MA790Z/A
UPC: 885909140244
EAN: 0885909140244
ASIN: B000BQXTSS
Release Date: August 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 OK, But still using Word the most. October 11, 2007
J. L. Ellwood (Baltimore, MD)
29 out of 38 found this review helpful
Coming from a PC to a mac I find it is Word that I always go to when I need to do some word processing or powerpoint. I get very frustrated trying to figure out how to do simple stuff in Iworks that just seems to come naturally in Microsoft. (IMHO) I upgraded to the new version of Iworks thinking that it may have been a bit easier to use than the previous version, but after a few attempt to navigate around it, I gave up and went back to Word. Microsoft is a bit more expensive... but for those used to a PC... Worth it.
very neat, but not an ms office replacement for those who must be compatible September 25, 2007
The Count (Raleigh, NC, USA)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
pages and keynote are very polished products, and, if you dont need to be able to work on existing ms doc files you are safe. but, and this is a big but, you get mildly to moderately complex doc files to work on, the constant error messages that this or that does not work will be frustrating. same goes for numbers, in even a bigger way. just too many excel formattings and formulas cause numbers to hiccup.
 iWork is only OK February 1, 2008
Charles Jahnke (Boston, MA USA)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
As a student I have found iWork to be only OK.
Numbers:
My biggest problem is with Numbers. Numbers does not have any sort of linear, exponential or logarithmic regression functions, error bars or trends which makes it next-to-useless for any sort of lab work or mathematical analysis. While Numbers does have the basic statistical functions, the input is unintuitive and commands are different from excel which makes crossover very difficult. Numbers does look pretty, but unless you use the templates, creating your own style is difficult. Each portion of the table needs to be changed separately and short of automator I don't see any easy macros (note: you can save a template). Templates are helpful occasionally, but the majority of people who use Numbers are doing some sort of number crunching and in this aspect Numbers falls short, way too short. Too much pretty, not enough function, Numbers is not Excel.
Pages:
Pages is at least somewhat useful. It types, formats, spell checks and prints, which is all most people need it to do. Unfortunately, Apple portrays Pages as a Microsoft Publisher alternative--it is not. It's not even close to MS Word which is a step down from Publisher layout wise. My main complaint is that the dictionary/grammar check are not as powerful as Word. It doesn't make changes as you type, recognize common grammatical mistakes or even register capitalization rules. Templates are helpful I guess (in this way it is like publisher), but honestly how often do you use them.
Keynote:
Better than Microsoft Power Point - hands down. Apple focuses on the `pretty' in each of these programs and for keynote this is actually a good thing.
Good Mac-centric office suite...now outdone by MS Office 08 February 1, 2008
RonAnnArbor (Ann Arbor, MI United States)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is an absolutely wonderful-looking office suite from Apple. For a few months, it was the best you could get for your Mac, especially the new Intel macs.
But as of last week's release of MS Office 2008 for Mac, iWork returns to second place in the Office Feature set. There is nothing here that isn't outdone by MS Office 08.
What iWork continues to excel at is the interface, and the mac-centricity of the program -- everything looks and feels like all your other familiar Mac programs.
For those who have been reared on MS Word and Excel, there is no comparison, however.
The one downside of iWorks -- you can not natively save programs to .doc or .xls format. You need to "export" each document you want to share with your PC-office co-workers. This adds an extra step to every save...eventually you stop doing so and hope that nobody wants any of your files...and when you do need to share them you need to convert all of them.
I installed MS Office 2008 the day it was released, and found myself having to convert hundreds of Pages documents to use them back in Office -- a royal pain, and really one of the reasons that iWork is now banished tot he Application folder. I dare not delete it from my harddrive for fear that I will have files I saved in iWork format that can't be converted in Word....there's the rub -- you MUST convert files using Pages or Numbers, you can NOT convert anything inside MS Office basically meaning you have to keep two office suites on your hard drive.
The other serious (not yet fixed despite being out 6 months) flaw in Pages is the drop color problem -- if using shadowing around photo-image boxes the program changes the colors of your photos on the page. There is no work around for this other than to save the entire document as a PDF, open in Text Editor, re-save it as a JPG, and and then print. This affects all macs across the board. Graphic Designers beware.
My Timeline....up until iWork 08 was released, MS Office 2004 for Mac was the Suite of Choice....then for about 6 months iWork 08 was the clear leader...now with the release of MS Office 2008, there really is no comparison and MS Office 08 wins in the full-feature-full-compatibility realm.
OK, but not Great October 17, 2007
B. Ueno (Hawaii)
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
After receiving Apple iWork 08 I am impressed with what you can do with Keynote,Pages and Numbers. However, even though Apple says it will work with MS Word and Excel, it really only reads those files. If you create or edit a document in either Pages or Numbers users of Word or Excel will not be able to open or view your changes.
If on the other hand all you want is a way to print hard copies to be shared (or shared with other Mac users) iWorks is a wonderful program. If you need to share your work with MS Office users than I suggest purchasing MS Office for Macs. I will.
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