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 This is Great!!! January 4, 2008
P. Myers (Alberta)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Move over MS office, Iwork 08 is here. Easy to use exactally what you need and no frills to cover up poor performance. This is all you need!
 iWork 08 Numbers is not an Excel Substitute February 13, 2008
Ari Consul (Seattle, WA USA)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Apologies for those not using Numbers, but there is no method to review it separately.
iWork 08 numbers is missing a subtotal feature.
This makes it entirely impossible to use to examine budget data (e.g. how much I spent at the grocery store last month).
If you are looking to use iWork as a substitute for MS Word, you'll be doing okay, but Numbers is simply not a good Excel replacement.
Now with Numbers! February 25, 2008
R. Beitler (Missouri United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A $79 office suite? Seriously? Yes Virginia, there really is a Santa Clause.
Okay, I will admit that the main reason we purchased iWork is for the excellent presentation module, Keynote. Keynote smokes PowerPoint so bad, there really is no comparison. Keynote can make your presentation go from snoozeville to true eyecandy, keeping peoples attention even after a heavy lunch in a warm room. Think of iWork as $79 for Keynote, and Pages and Numbers just come along for free!
Pages is the document manager/word processor for the average user. Seriously, how many features have you ever used in Microsoft Word? How many advanced features do you use on a regular basis? I thought so. Pages is for you. When you want to make a good looking document in a snap, and not have to spend hours just trying to figure out how to do that, Pages works.
Numbers is Apples first native spreadsheet application. It does not work, or feel, like Excel. Since I am a heavy Excel user, I fumble around in this application, and soon head to my open office NeoOffice spreadsheet application. However, if you are new to spreadsheets and do not need a lot of macro support, give Numbers a try.
iWork is well worth the $79 price tag. I recommend it.
Eh, Apple's software isn't streamlined May 10, 2008
space kaiser (nj)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
iWork '08 kinda of sucks. Some very basic functionality is missing that makes getting something done quickly impossible. I typically use windows and microsoft office for work related tasks and a mac for home and pleasure. So recently I decided I would try to go all mac and see what new tricks I could learn. Pages is slow to open, slow to accept format changes and lacks good keyboard shortcuts. Everything you want to do is buried in a menu or the inspector box. You can't make global changes quickly and you can make local changes quickly. The best you can do is spend the time to try to make things format right. Forget about exporting to PDF or word because text gets garbled and in word it is broken into unmanageable objects. The templates provided look pretty but I have not been able to insert my information easily or quickly so that it becomes usable for me. Some of the templates have good graphic layout and I get ideas from them but again, hard to adapt. Numbers: apple's answer to excel is impossible. People have created hundreds of thousands of different uses for excel. It is programmable and easy to get started on and impossible to fully master. Numbers is like a program you wrote yourself. It's cool that you actually got it to work but you would never actually use it for anything productive. Just try to put in a simple budget for your personal finances in there- even use the template they gave you, and you'll see that it is not intuitive and of course in typical mac fashion why have a keyboard or right click menu do the tasks you commonly do when you can make an obscure button or drop down menu that you have to suffer through finding to do it. I almost forgot th last product in the package- Powerpoint, or wait I mean Keynote. Keynote is actually pretty good. Again it has some quirks that Microsoft products don't seem to have but overall it is has quality additional features that you can't get in PP. Overall, if you have a mac and can't afford the Office for Mac suite or can't do like I have (windows on VM ware for "work" applications) then it is fairly priced and will probably get your basic documents done but it could definitely be better and more efficient.
Numbers is NO Excel!! June 17, 2008
H. Kline (Palos Verdes Estates, CA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have been a Mac user since 1985 but for the last 10 years, I've used Excel for all my work spreadsheets. When I heard that "Numbers" was "just like Excel but better," I happily bought iWork thinking I'd convert all my boring Excel spreadsheets into these colorful, attractive presentations.
I was disappointed to learn that you cannot "freeze panes" in Numbers (an Excel MUST), you cannot TOTAL up several rows like in Excel unless you manually create a formula and drag it around (Excel does it automatically) and lots of little things are missing as far as Sum, formulas, etc.
I created some letters in Pages but could not email them because my email system does not recognize the document format (and the people receiving them were on Macs so they couldn't have opened them anyway!).
Beware - Numbers is NO Excel... :(
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