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Apple Updates iWork Apps for iOS and macOS to Version 11
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Yep wondering the same here too. I'm fine with updating the iOS versions, but need the file to open on the MacBook Pro running 10.14.
Also wondering if the new feature "remove objects from a selection by tapping" is essentially a Command-click feature for making non-contiguous selections? If so, would really like to update the iOS versions.
do you know this or do you assume this?
We had a long talk in one thread if Apple actually used iWork for their corporates work and if it was sufficient or not especially with excel, or does the iWork maker resort to MS Office when they need to get real work done?
I use numbers and pages quite often. If you have used Word and Excel and know how to use them effectively, there’s probably no reason to switch.
They seem to like iWork during their WWDC demos to show off new features of the operating system. iWork apps are usually the first to get the new features when there is an OS update.
i wondering the same thing, i cant see apple just stopping iwork to work on Mojave instantly.
we could be safe!
Having the presenter notes and next slide indicator in separate window (on my laptop screen) when presenting in a separate window (on my classroom display) is a game changer for me. Previously I was having to use an iPad for remote control.
I'm using ipEVO annotator to annotate over slides on my touch screen classroom display which is why I use the 'Present in a window' feature. Unexpected boosts in my presentation capabilities are much appreciated!
(Also, Keyboard Meastro is an awesome tool for automatically moving and resizing my Keynote windows when I want to present or stop presenting)
I'm using ipEVO annotator to annotate over slides on my touch screen classroom display which is why I use the 'Present in a window' feature. Unexpected boosts in my presentation capabilities are much appreciated!
(Also, Keyboard Meastro is an awesome tool for automatically moving and resizing my Keynote windows when I want to present or stop presenting)
I use these apps every day. I'l have 5-10 documents open in tabs in all three of the iWork apps. The intuitive interface makes them so easy to master. It's one of the main things that keeps me buying Macs. Having to use google apps is like a time warp 15 years back (although at least a lot of Mac UI conventions seem to have been implemented in the web interface) and meanwhile I find the Office window management and ribbon completely disrupts any productivity for me. People may be used to google docs (and rely on the amazing collaboration) or Office, but they may not know what they are missing.
If you have an iPad (or iPhone) you can use the continuity feature 'add sketch' to an iWork document on a Mac. Works really well just like the 'add photo' function which I also use all the time.
^^This. I am proficient in Word, therefore this is my word processing app for every task. Excel - not so much
, I get along with it in the office, but in private, I prefer the slimmer Numbers.
Overall, I like Pages but I do so much collaborative docs—especially these days remotely—that I'm always afraid it'll interfere for all the Word users.
Eh... yes and no. Appleworks was really much more equivalent to the Microsoft Works product that was arguably created in response to it (3 years after Appleworks came out in 1984).
Just as Microsoft abandoned Works, Apple dumped Appleworks. Except Microsoft always had the Office suite to sell those customers as the substitute, while Apple had nothing. So they released iWork.
I agree that Apple never really advertised Pages or Numbers as head-to-head alternatives to Word or Excel. But that would have been foolish even IF those products were superior (and clearly, they weren't). Apple was trying to walk a line between being a Microsoft competitor but cooperating with them and encouraging them to write more Mac compatible code. A whole lot of Macs were sold BECAUSE Microsoft had a native version of Office that could run on them, and that was a requirement for the purchaser.
I don’t think Macs were ever without MS Office seeing as Office was on Mac before it was on Windows. I’ve been a dedicated Mac user since MacOS 8 and office was available then and before then. It started with Word and when Microsoft saw it take off on Mac that’s when they made the Windows version.
Indeed. I even could imagine that Pages/Numbers/Keynote are, to a certain extent, a fallback option for Apple in the event that the relationship with Microsoft deteriorates.
I believe there was an extended period where MS Office was stuck at 4.2 for a long time. It was “there” but getting less and less compatible each year.
My guess is the user base is very very very small and I only think the reason its around is... just because. I think they get a kick to say that you have a free office suite with Macs and iOS, and to be fair, its great to be able to open word documents and excel on iOS for free natively.
but for anyone looking to do real work, i dunno. I mean, its even lacking support. There is hardly any documents or place to ask question about it, in comparison MS Office has free and paid lessons and courses with many books and articles of How-Tos.
Even though you don't need Final Cut Pro, I feel obligated to tell you that it's actually easier to use than iMovie.
Yes, all of my customers use Numbers for personal use or for their small business (creatives, restaurants etc...). Mainly to make their income-expense tracking, annual tax statements, time tracking and so on. Sometimes we collaborate via the sharing feature to work on a document together.
Some of those documents can get rather extensive, for example analyzing revenue, cost and profit of a restaurant over the span of several years. Or calculate various international sales taxes from revenue. The way Numbers works with multiple tables on a sheet is quite an advantage in such cases. In terms of functionality and performance there is nothing missing from my point of view.
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That was my first thought when I saw the version number.
Perhaps someone who updated to 11 could donate a file so we could check?
So far, all of my Numbers documents are working between version 10.1 on Mojave and version 11 on Big Sur. if there are any features added that are not cross compatible with the ver 10.1, I've not run into any of them yet.
Still need to test Pages and Keynote documents.
Many of the updates this go around were related to how documents are created. I’ll look over the release notes again to see if there’s anything in there that might indicate a file level change.
It prints what you tell it to print. If you don't want it to print a black background then obviously don't use a black background. If you told it to print a black background with white letters, and it didn't print the background but did print the white letters, then it would look like a picture of the Abominable Snowman during a snowstorm, and what would be the point of that? You control the output.