Online Store - Apple iWork '08 [OLD VERSION]

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Binding: DVD-ROM Brand: Apple EAN: 0885909244300 Feature: Apple's productivity suite for the Mac, iWork '08 includes three applications: Pages '08, Numbers '08, and Keynote '08 Format: DVD-ROM Label: Apple Manufacturer: Apple Model: MB624Z/A Platform: Mac OS X Publisher: Apple Release Date: 2007-08-11 Studio: Apple
Features Apple's productivity suite for the Mac, iWork '08 includes three applications: Pages '08, Numbers '08, and Keynote '08 Powerful word processing and page layout with 140 Apple-designed templates with Pages Effortlessly create stunning presentations, complete with Apple-designed themes, cinema-quality animations, and voiceover narration with Keynote Create compelling spreadsheets for everything from family budgets and event planning to invoices and complex financial reports with Numbers Import and export compatibility with Microsoft Office
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Editorial Reviews: Pages '08 offers an intuitive way to create beautiful, media-rich documents using impressive features such as Writing and layout modes, Change tracking, Contextual Format Bar, Automatic list formatting, Graphics tools and templates. Pages '08 supports industry-standard formats to easily open documents from other word processing applications that were created on a Mac or a PC. Amaze your audience with cinema-quality presentations using Keynote '08 and its new features Text effects & transitions, Action Builds, Instant Alpha, Voice-over Recording, Smart Builds and Apple-designed Themes. Numbers '08 does everything from setting up your family budget to completing a lab report using Intelligent Tables, Interactive Print View, Flexible Canvas, Import & Export Excel, Charts, Images, Text Labels and Customizable Templates. New Templates - Use more than 80 new templates Keynotes '08 - Text effects & transitions - Captivate viewers with elegant transitions Action Builds - Move objects along a path Instant Alpha - Change backgrounds with simple click & drag Smart Builds - Add photos with sophisticated animations Apple-designed Themes - 9 themes for creating a professional presentation Numbers '08 - Intelligent Tables - Create multiple resizable tables Interactive Print View - Scale and arrange documents Flexible Canvas - Move objects wherever you like with comments, photos and graphics Import & Export Excel - Share spreadsheets with Microsoft Office Charts, Images, Text Labels - Add 2D & 3D charts, photos or a map Customizable Templates - For Home, School and Business System Requirements - Macintosh computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5 or PowerPC G4 (500MHz or faster) processor, 512MB RAM, 32MB video memory, Mac OS X Version 10.4.10 or later, QuickTime 7.2 or later, iLife '08 recommended, 1GB free space and DVD drive required for installation
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: perfect substitute of MS Office Comment: Apple's iWork 08 is a great product and the perfect substitute of MicroSoft's Office suite. Customer Rating: Summary: Pages works beautifully... with room for improvement Comment: I've been a Mac user and Microsoft Word user since 1984. I made the switch to Pages a year or so ago, and while I periodically still need Word, for the most part, I've converted to Pages. If I do use Word today, it's more out of habit than anything else, because Pages has performed to my expectations and has done whatever I've asked it to do, including being able to read Word documents and "save as" Word docs for my Windoze friends. As an author, I put Word through paces; as a Publisher, even more so. Pages is ahead of Word in that it is *ridiculously* easy to create a PDF file in Pages: Simply "save as" PDF. Word, however, involved needing to convert it which would "need distiller properly installed", and you'd have to "print" it as a PDF file as opposed to saving it as one. It's an additional and apparently unnecessary step, but typical of Microsoft. Pages hasn't frozen on me yet. Always a plus. However, one area that could use improvement is its standard templates. Word comes with far more templates of various types than Pages. There are other areas as well, but it could stem more from my being so used to Word, more than a deficiency on Pages' part. One thing I wouldn't want is for Pages to become excessively bloated and inappropriately priced like Word (and Office). I haven't needed to use the other software included in iWork yet, so no comments there. For the price, Pages does the job, and it's worth it to be free of the Microsoft monopoly. Customer Rating: Summary: iWork, finally I can read... Comment: My mother keeps sending me .pps files, which on a Mac I can not read or even open. However, I found out that Keynote, which is part of iWork, opens and plays them with no problem. There are a few files that should have sound, but I don't seem to get the sound. However, despite that one flaw I can a least get the images and the slideshow effect that you usually get when on a PC. I'd say it's worth the money to purchase this because the three programs that come in iWorks are similar programs found on PC so you can now do much more on a Mac than you could before! Customer Rating: Summary: iWork as gift Comment: I purchased iWork as a gift for two granddaughters, ages 11 and 13. I've enjoyed using it and I hope they will too. Customer Rating: Summary: Worth it for Keynote alone, all around very good Comment: Keynote is so much more intuitive and polished than Powerpoint that I would gladly pay twice the price for Keynote alone. I also like Pages very much for its elegant and simple approach, though it doesn't beat Word by nearly as much as Keynote beats Powerpoint. Numbers still needs some work, but is already very promising (I still use Excel for more complex tasks. My one big gripe is the lack of an auto-save function. These applications do crash (though Keynote never crashed on me during a presentation) and I have lost many hours of work because I didn't save often enough. So: Make sure to save often! More Reviews