Apple iWork '08
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend 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… Product details and pricing info |
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102 Customer Reviews Posted
- Best publishing program if you have an older Mac
- Bought the new Microsoft Word for Mac to do a monthly volunteer newsletter and found that it runs like molasses on a G4 Powerbook. So, I bought IWork for the 'Pages' program. This program is easy to use and easy to learn. It's very much like the old PageMaker for Macs. Converts easily to PDF for sharing. Would have given it 5 starts, but I think that anything can be improved. Otherwise, there would never be new versions. Only negative - I would have liked to buy 'Pages' as a stand alone application. I have no need for the other apps.
- 2008-08-31, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- PAGES IS A VERY WEAK WORD PROCESSING PROGRAM
- The word processing portion of iWork, Pages, is cumbersome, confusing and unusable.
I bought iWork primarily to use as a word processor, and really wanted to like it. The praise that Apple heaps on itself is very persuasive, and I went for it. After you use it for a while, it starts to sink in that this program is half-hearted. At first I thought it was just a matter of the user customizing Pages just like we've all had to do with Word, and when I couldn't fine tune the thing, I thought it was me. If it's Apple, it must be cool and intuitive and cutting edge, right? I went to the Apple site for the tutorial, and watched it until I realized that it was an infomercial. It was like that moment where Dorothy finds the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain. Apple is losing it.
I have come to some realizations about Apple since buying a new Mac, and one of these realizations is that Apple really doesn't have any use for low tech, working Joes and Josephines. Apple has it's eye on the horizon, and sees the world at it's feet as something to wipe off it's shoe. My new Mac is great, but the mouse that came with it has a cord about 6 inches long and the computer has very few ports. There are a few other features and inconveniences that say, either you go wireless on everything or we'll throw you a few obligatory non-wireless alternatives. iWork follows this philosophy. The word processing part of the program was obviously not conceived and executed by anybody who ever had to sit in a cubicle and crank out letters. Apple dashed off this program as a crumb to throw to those plebians who don't use email or Blackberries or iPhones to communicate. "OK, you programmers, give us a word processor, so we can get the real groovy stuff out to our target audience."
Microsoft Word is a work horse. Pages is a silly filly. I'm sure that the presentation-producing (Keynote) and the spreadsheet maker (Numbers) are way cool, but having a program that can be easily used to write a derned letter is beneath Apple.
Now I'm looking at Microsoft Office 2004 or some of those free word processing programs. The money I spent on iWork was wasted. - 2008-08-28, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Disappointed
- The old Appleworks 6 had a n easy to use database. The iWorks is akin to Microsoft Works- the database is incorporated into the spreadsheet.
- 2008-08-26, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- iWork Works!
- As brand new user to the Mac World, I was in desperate need for a "Office" suite but refuse to overpay for Office Mac when this is all I really need.
I'm working/importing old documents from Word PC, and it takes minutes to retouch them and most of the stuff I've imported looks pretty damn awesome!
I have not used Numbers, I'm off to discover Keynote, but Pages rocks my world!
The price is as low as it's ever gotten and I have PRIME shipping. You can't beat that.
I'm thinking that some of the negative reviews have to do with people that have absolutely no computer skills at all. I'm not a computer master by any means, but iWork '08 is already a fun tool to use. If I can figure it out, so can everybody else. - 2008-08-15, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Alternate to MS Office
- Apple software for word, spreadsheets, and presentation programs. Not as extensive as MS Office but usable for common tasks. Good for younger users to learn basics before using other programs. Economical for word processing, spread sheets in a non commercial setting.
- 2008-08-14, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
