Customer Reviews:
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 Excellent January 12, 2008
Steve-O (Upland, CA)
Apple iWork '08 has a clean interface, is horribly easy to use and contains all the tools I need to run a small business. I am extremely happy with this product.
Don't let the beautiful templates fool you. I had Office 2004 on my Mac, but since acquiring iWork have deleted it.
Really nice program to work with January 31, 2008
Photoguy
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really like using this program. I used to work on Windows with Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, and [...], but this program, however different, was intuitive enough for me to get right to work. (I've also used Office 2008 for Mac more recently, but I don't like it as much.)
Everything looks elegant, effects (like slide transitions in Keynote) are totally cool (way better than in Office), it's really easy to use, it has really good performance, it's actually fun to use, and I'm always finding new cool things to do with it. Like control Keynote with the Apple remote or make a flash website out of a Keynote presentation (and yes, there are similar features in Office, but Office doesn't perform well enough and it's not fun enough to experiment in). You can even make 3D graphs that look like real materials or draw vector graphics almost as well as in Inkscape or Illustrator. And the list goes on and on, it's really nice to use.
Office compatibility is just 'okay'. It works, but when you import a Word document, for example, you're going to have to manually fix things like picture location or page boarders. Using Keynote to open a PowerPoint won't import transition sounds. But I noticed that even Office 2008 won't look the same as documents viewed in Office 2003. PowerPoint files are best viewed in Office 2008, but Pages opens .doc files BETTER than Office 2008, I noticed. Excel compatibility is fine.
I can't go though everything I like about the program in one review, but you can download the trial from Apple so there you go. I would highly recommend trying iWork 08.
Apple iWork Review February 10, 2008
Brooks Walker (Iceland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stunning software. Apple at its best. I work professionally with dozens of software, as a designer and photographer, and nothing matches the intelligence, simplicity, and sophistication of this software suite. And at this low price! Any shortcomings are so minor, that they are not worth discussing.Apple iWork '08
 Vastly Improved From Last Version February 13, 2008
iWork '08 is vastly improved from its last version. It now meets and in some ways exceeds Word. Lives up to Apple's high usability standards. Layout view in Pages is unmatched by other software in its class. Basic word processing is excellent and less clumsy than Word, but not as advanced as Word. Can't speak as much on Numbers and Keynote, but seem like very viable alternatives to the competition.
I use Mac and Windows April 9, 2008
yogagirl (chicago)
Keynote is stellar and wins hands-down over Powerpoint. Pages is intuitive once you get used to how it thinks, very good for many types of documents, you can do a lot more than with Word, but lacks a few common-sense features. Numbers is a first release and needs to mature a bit, but offers very nice formatting tools.
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