Apple iWork 08 Family Pack OLD VERSION

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. Automatic list formatting - List and format on the fly 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 re

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Very functional for price
Covers much more than the basics for a low cost. There is a learning curve moving from other products. Let’s hope Apple can keep these productivity products updated and avoid dumping them in the future.

4 Stars iwork works
Great software for the price, but sure wish I had known the new version was coming out the following month! Upgrade is the same as buying the original. I write articles for magazines and I have to be careful about how I save my documents as they will not read on a PC unless they are exported as a word document so keep this in mind. However, this software is made for a Mac and works great as it integrates with existing software and makes your workflow a lot easier. Love the templates in Ink which are perfect for business and client letters and invoices.

4 Stars Excellent suite of applications.
Keynote and Pages are very good applications that will need some minor tweaks in the future.

Numbers definitely needs more functions built-in (those that are currently standard in Excel). No five star rating until this is fixed. For most users though, this program will perform fine.

5 Stars If you can go the extra mile it is well worth the trouble
This program is very intuitive and will not take that long to get use to. It has many features which are very handy especially in the area of document creation and inserting images and especially in the ease of formatting each document. It seems like it takes 3 less steps to achieve things with iWorks than it does with Office. However, Pages is the one program that I think is better than Word, Numbers and Keynote have great integration with pages, but still are not as good as Excel or Powerpoint.

5 Stars Huge improvement over iWork 06
I use iWork quite a bit and didn’t really take iWork 06 seriously due to severe limitations but when iWork 08 came out, I’ve become so accustomed to using it, I actually hate having to run anything Microsoft.

One thing I did notice is that Numbers is a fair spreadsheet tool if you’re only using it for personal reasons or if you’re not interacting with anyone else using Excel. Many of the formulas and formats I use in Excel don’t work with Numbers.

One other note, the formatting in Keynote doesn’t always play nice with Microsoft PowerPoint. When exporting to PowerPoint, I have to open PowerPoint in VMware’s Fusion and edit it before I can send it along to my coworkers who are running Windows.

Aside from that, iWork 08 is awesome and because I have several Mac’s at home and work, I buy the Family pack to keep everything under license.

Even though I’ve got some complaints with the interoperability between Apple and Microsoft, I still rate iWork with 5-stars for innovation, ease of use, function and presentation - Apple just gets it!

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Apple iWork 08 OLD VERSION

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

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars iWork as gift
I purchased iWork as a gift for two granddaughters, ages 11 and 13. I’ve enjoyed using it and I hope they will too.

4 Stars iWork, finally I can read…
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!

4 Stars Pages works beautifully… with room for improvement
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.

5 Stars perfect substitute of MS Office
Apple’s iWork 08 is a great product and the perfect substitute of MicroSoft’s Office suite.

5 Stars I Just Love Apple Software
It’s a personal choice. I prefer Apple and it’s software.

Simple and elegant!

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