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Apple Updates iWork for iOS and macOS With New Linking Features and More

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Apple today updated its suite of iWork apps, including Pages, Keynotes, and Numbers for iOS and macOS, with new features related to Schoolwork and the ability to link web pages, email addresses, and phone numbers to different shapes and objects.

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For Pages and Numbers on iOS and macOS, the updates include the ability for users to link different elements, such as a link to a web page, an email address, and phone number to different shapes, objects, lines, and text boxes.

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote also now enable teachers using Apple's Schoolwork feature to "view student progress, including word count and time spent." The updates are available for free via the App Store on iOS and macOS.

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Andregant said:
People use iWork apps? I guess so. I should try them.
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Pages is awesome. I write all my novels in Pages then simply export to Word for agents and publishers (defacto standard) or ePub if I'm updating a self-published book. As an older dude, through the ages I've gone from writing on a manual typewriter, electric typewriter, various typesetters (ooh, a one-line screen), then a Mac LC with Word and 2MB of RAM, upgrade, upgrade, and now MacBook Air & iPad Pro with Pages (can update on either and it auto syncs).
 
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GMcKenzie said:
Pages is awesome. I write all my novels in Pages then simply export to Word for agents and publishers (defacto standard) or ePub if I'm updating a self-published book. As an older dude, through the ages I've gone from writing on a manual typewriter, electric typewriter, various typesetters (ooh, a one-line screen), then a Mac LC with Word and 2MB of RAM, upgrade, upgrade, and now MacBook Air & iPad Pro with Pages (can update on either and it auto syncs).
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I wrote my first novel in Pages and did most of my college work in iWork '09. Boy do I miss that version...
 
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Would love to ditch the 365 subscription. Would it be that cost prohibitive for Apple to make a more competitive product? As it stands, I keep an old Windows laptop around just to teach the kids how the rest of the world operates on PC. Don't want them to be 18 year old tech luddites at their first real jobs, or in college classes.
 
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AdrianCobon said:
It depends on what you want to use it for. I use Numbers to do the monthly billing for a relative's small business due to its ability to craft professional looking invoices without having to spend a good half hour customizing everything.
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Fully agree - numbers has its uses and some flexibility e.g. with worksheet areas that EXCEL is missing.

But EXCEL has some fairly powerful tools and formulas and can be extended easily with VBA (it is not a nice language, but it also does not fully suck) - so if you are a power user (or as in my case "were") it is difficult to switch.
 
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tubular said:
Keynote’s way better than PowerPoint.
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How so? Objectively they are not superior to MS Office.

Keynote is the closet match, yes it can easily compete with PowerPoint but there is nothing about it that makes it "superior". Pages can hold a decent battle to Word in a few aspects, but again, it is not a full featured. And Numbers... well, that one is tougher to match Excel.
 
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Apple today updated its suite of iWork apps, including Pages, Keynotes, and Numbers for iOS and macOS, with new features related to Schoolwork and the ability to link web pages, email addresses, and phone numbers to different shapes and objects.

iWork-Trio-Feature.jpg

For Pages and Numbers on iOS and macOS, the updates include the ability for users to link different elements, such as a link to a web page, an email address, and phone number to different shapes, objects, lines, and text boxes.

Unfortunately, Keynote doesn't get this feature but, alongside Pages and Numbers, does now enable teachers using Apple's Schoolwork feature to "view student progress, including word count and time spent." The updates are available for free via the App Store on iOS and macOS.

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Keynote has had the feature of linking from visual elements such as shapes, objects and text boxes for years - this is bringing the other apps into parity.
 
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kjvmartin said:
Would love to ditch the 365 subscription. Would it be that cost prohibitive for Apple to make a more competitive product? As it stands, I keep an old Windows laptop around just to teach the kids how the rest of the world operates on PC. Don't want them to be 18 year old tech luddites at their first real jobs, or in college classes.
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You’d be surprised how little college cares about Office 365 vs iWork vs Google Drive.
With the exception of English and some History classes that required some Microsoft Only Formatting, most of my work was done in iWork. My Keynote Presentations were the highlights of my professors’ day. Plus, some students didn’t know how to activate their free Office subscription so they just went with Google Drive.
 
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