Next in line at Macworld is a new version of iWork for the desktop and the Cloud

By on Jan 6, 2009 at 1:15 PM
News January 6, 2009

Apple announced a new version of iWork ’09. Changes in Keynote ’09 include magic move, a feature that will automatically move and resize objects between slides, slick new transitions including text transitions, chart animations, and themes. Keynote will also communicate wirelessly with your Mac and allow you to view and control your presentation via your iPhone or iPod touch. Apple also announced changes to Pages, Apple’s word editing application. The latest version of Pages will include fullscreen view, dynamic outlines, and mail merge with Numbers which will connect your Page document with tables and lists in Numbers. Also, 40 themes for your creative pleasure. Numbers ’09 gets a refresh as well with new Table categories, 250 functions with a convenient function view, and advanced chart options (mixed chart types, multiple axis charts, trend lines, and error bars, etc.) Numbers ’09 also integrates with Pages ’09, charts or graphs pasted in Pages will link to the corresponding Numbers document and can be updated dynamically. Sweet! New templates for Numbers as well, the theme for the day it seems. i Work is available today and will set you back $79 for single user, $99 for the family pack, and $49 with a new Mac. If you don’t have Leopard, you can purchase the Mac Box Set which includes Leopard, iLife, and iWork for $169. If you prefer the cloud for your computing, Apple also announced the beta of iWork.com. Think Google Docs for Apple with online document sharing and collaboration. The Beta will be free but iWork will transition to a paid service when it launches. Available online today.

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  • xenoncj

    So… I’ve never even seen so much as screen shot of this program(s)… Is it any good? Does it work with MS Office files? How does it compare to say MS Office 2007 programs?

    Excell?
    Word?
    Access?
    Visio?
    Project?
    PowerPoint?

  • bonesb

    @xeno – anyone can DL a trial, go for it if you’re a Mac user. It’s an Excel/Word/PP competitor, and it’s just different in its metaphor. I use Office 2007 – hate the Ribbon, like the power, miss the macros in the Home and Office version.

    I’m an Office power user, and I like Numbers better than Excel – think a spreadsheet app that thinks like a page layout app, it’s all about the presentation. I use Excel solely for crunching numbers and exchanging data now, which is what it’s the best at!

    I don’t use Keynote, tho’ I own the iWork 08 suite. I just don’t need to do presentations. PP is awesome for both the Mac and Windows platform.

    I like Pages better than Word – for one reason. Pages has a real table and graphing engine built into it. Word doesn’t, even after a dozen iterations. Word’s a can opener for files, but the Mac OS opens just about anything now – even PDF files with text.

    The other stuff – Access, Visio, Project. Don’t do DBs, there’s other apps that open/save Visio files, I use Merlin instead of Project (which I also use) but Merlin’s got a better interface and is more powerful than Project, IMO. And about Merlin, every client asks me what I used to generate the charts – never hear that about Project data!

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