Product Description

IWORK 06 FAMILY PACK IN

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2724 in Software
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MA224Z/A
• Released on: 2006-01-27
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .49 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
iWork '06 is the only suite of applications that makes it easy for consumers, educators, small business owners, and creative pros to create great-looking documents and presentations with the power of Mac OS X and the ease of iLife. By combining the graphics power of Mac OS X with the rich media integration of iLife, Apple is building the successor to AppleWorks with iWork. Both Keynote and Pages share new drawing tools, image editing, 3D charts, reviewer commenting, and tables with calculations.

Keynote 3
Keynote 3 is the only way to create cinema-quality presentations and interactive slideshows with ease. Keynote now includes more power to impress with 3D charts, new transitions, flexible build animations, powerful new drawing tools, image masking and image editing. Keynote also includes tables with calculations and reviewer comments.

Pages 2
Pages 2 is the easiest way to create great-looking documents from simple letters and flyers to professional-quality newsletters and brochures. Pages now includes mail merge with Address Book, reviewer comments, auto-correction and tables with calculations to help your customers get the basics done. Pages also includes incredible drawing tools, image editing and 3d charts to give any document that extra edge. Pages includes a wide range of templates for newsletters, flyers, posters, school reports, scrapbooks, brochures, business proposals, and invoices

Customer Reviews

very nice... waiting for iWork '07
iWork is a wonderful and very Apple-style product, including Pages (a Word meets Publisher application) and Keynote, a stunning presentation program.
I'm currently testing it to see if it can replace Microsoft Office for my work activities, and I think when iWork '07 (which will also include an Excel-like application) will be launched, it will be just perfect.
As all Apple stuff, it's very good-looking and pleasant to work with, just needs a few time to get used to it if you come from MS Office.
Pages is more than just a word processor, you can create extremely beautiful documents with it.
Keynote presentations are amazing and can be exported in plenty of formats, like Quicktime movies, .pdf, .ppt, .html etc.

@John Self...
Just click Command+B or Command+I to change highlighted text to bold or italic, or select "show Inspector window" and you'll get a panel with tons of information and settings for your document, including character formatting options.

Cracking easy to use wordprocessor and photo package
I'll be honest, I've mainly used Pages2 as I put together a regular pamphlet for a local pub. It's great for this kind of task where you want to easily assemble photos and text - the supplied templates are particularly rewarding here and enable a really professional result to be produced without any hassle. As ever there will inevitably be comparisons with Word, which I use regularly at work. Word is fine but at home I prefer this, as it integrates image handling far more seamlessly. If you want to get more complicated that's possible too but even a normally complex task like a mailmerge is simple and straightforward (I did a bit of experimenting the other day and had one up and running in a few minutes). If you're lucky enough to own a Mac you will appreciate the typical thought that has gone in to making the interface as intuitive and stylish as ever. I'd definitely recommend this software for the recreational/semi-serious home user who wants to quickly produce documents with visual flair.

I work harder now...
I made the switch a week ago from PC to Mac and am loving my shiny new Apple Macbook Pro. I also bought iWork 06 along with it as I thought I may as well go for the whole Apple experience instead of messing about with Word for Mac.

And so far my experiences of iWork have been mixed. It contains two applications, Keynote (for presentations, like Microsoft Powerpoint) and Pages (word processor, like Microsoft Word). I've only used Pages so far. It opened basic Word documents from my previous computer without a problem, retaining format, font, etc. However it was unable to open a Word document that had a table in it.

Pages is a good-looking and fast word processor but after using it for just a day or two I have found a couple of niggling issues. These seem to arise from Apple's commendable desire to streamline the programs and keep them simple. One thing is that you can't (and I checked their online support pages) have buttons in the toolbar for Italic/Bold etc. The only way to italicise text without using the keyboard is to go to the menu and click Format > Font > Italics. This is incredibly frustrating for someone who used to do it in one click in Microsoft Word. Another annoyance is that you can't do a word count for part of a document, just the whole thing. So if I want to see how many words I've written today, I can't just select the recent text and do a word count. I would have to open a new document, paste it in and do a count there. Infuriating!

These are just two things I've discovered so far, and there may well be others. For all Apple's claims of making things more user-friendly (which is true of the computer itself), this is pretty poor. I'm seriously thinking of getting Microsoft Office for Mac Student Edition just to have Word back again. It may be bloated, but now I know it's the handy basic features that make it bloated!