Apple Updates Keynote, Pages and Numbers for iPad

[MacRumors]

Apple has issued version updates to their iPad productivity apps Keynote, Numbers, and Pages. The updates offer a number of bug fixes and improvements but also adds a number of new features. The new features are listed here:

Keynote
- Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format.
- Copy presentations between Keynote and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
- Support for audio in builds when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.
- Ability to group and ungroup objects.
- Add animated builds to grouped objects.
- Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations.
- Revolving Door, Swoosh and Wipe slide transition animations.

Numbers
- Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel (.XLS) format.
- Copy spreadsheets between Numbers and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
- Ability to group and ungroup objects.
- Open CSV files from Mail and other apps.

Pages
- Copy documents between Pages and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
- Option to display the word count for your document.
- Support for opening .txt files from Mail.
- Ability to group and ungroup objects.
- Import and export existing footnotes, endnotes, sections and tables of contents.
- Import and export Pages ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.

Each app is priced at $9.99 and is iPad-only.



Article Link: Apple Updates Keynote, Pages and Numbers for iPad

 

[markosb]

The export to xls is all I needed. Thanks Apple iWork team

 

[macrumors12345]

Finally!

Now you can actually incorporate iWork for iPad into a logical workflow. No more of this ridiculous "e-mail docs to yourself to get them on/off the iPad" stuff.

 

[whistler222]

Not sure i get it.

you can export it to xls format.. but how do you get it off the ipad?

 

[Scott6666]

Now you can actually incorporate iWork for iPad into a logical workflow. No more of this ridiculous "e-mail docs to yourself to get them on/off the iPad" stuff.

Now I might be buying some for my sales staff...

 

[userexec]

Still no option to remotely control presentations over wifi or bluetooth?

I would be completely okay with it if the iPad couldn't even create or edit presentations, so long as it could excel at giving them. Guess it's still just a small-group sort of thing, since gripping the podium is out of the question.

And ya, ya, I know. Buy a mac. Already done.

 

[crisss1205]

Not sure i get it.

you can export it to xls format.. but how do you get it off the ipad?

Email
iTunes Document Sharing
iWork.com
MobileMe iDisk
WebDAV Server

 

[FFArchitect]

Very useful. Hope the MobileMe integration is well done.

 

[Chris L]

I guess this is why we haven't seen the expected iWork '11 update (for Macs). Apple seems to have put all their software engineers on iOS projects. Same for iLife '11. And Bento 4 (Filemaker just released new mobile app upgrades).

 

[And1ss]

Man, I was totally hoping that a better outlining tool would be implemented. It sucks how one can't tab (when using an external keyboard) to get bullets to indent. Apple, get on this!

 

[Marx55]

Great for presentations:

7-inch iPad mini. Pocketable. Wow!!!
Bluetooth remote control.
True compatibility with Apple iWork to/from Mac.
True compatibility with Microsoft Office to/from Mac.
Last but not least, USB or card slot to get files in/from iPad!!!

When?

 

[CyberBob859]

Keynote
- Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format.
- Copy presentations between Keynote and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.

Numbers
- Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel (.XLS) format.
- Copy spreadsheets between Numbers and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.


Pages
- Copy documents between Pages and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.

Boy, did they just make iWork for iPad more useful with these features. Transferring files without going through iTunes is very appealing to me.

Does anybody know if the iWork suite for iPad uses iWork.com for file transfer and collaboration also?

 

[yetanotherdave]

A quick look at google docs, loads of people asking for WebDav support, but only vague "we're looking at it" responses.

That would make a killer combo IMO. Maybe there'll be loads more requests now.

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

next step. Universal app for iPhone.

 

[Sixtafoua]

Word Count Yes!!!!!!!!!!

 

[talkingfuture]

Will have to give this a go. Tried using numbers seriously for the first time today and found it surprisingly un-intuitive for an apple product.

 

[Consultant]

That's pretty awesome. Going to test it out.

Still no option to remotely control presentations over wifi or bluetooth?

I would be completely okay with it if the iPad couldn't even create or edit presentations, so long as it could excel at giving them. Guess it's still just a small-group sort of thing, since gripping the podium is out of the question.

And ya, ya, I know. Buy a mac. Already done.

Write to apple.com/feedback

 

[robertpetry]

Boy, I could really use these programs if they were better with MS Office. There were just too many things lost in the round trip with MS Office to make them useful to me.

Yes, another company that is MS Office or nothing but aren't there a lot of those?

I will wait for some reviews on the interoperability improvements with MS Office before I buy but this is great news!!!

 

[srobert]

In numbers…

Has the ability to merge cells been added yet?

 

[Wurm5150]

Export to PPT and Excel.. Yes! Finally..

 

[greenalien]

Dropbox

With the Webdav support, does it automatically sync files? Or do you have to manually copy the file locally, edit it, manually copy it back to the server?

Also, support for services like Dropbox would be even better. I wish Apple would just integrate all this into iOS so all apps can benefit from it without app developers reinventing the wheel every time.

iOS feels so restrictive without built-in support for cloud services. Especially when I use the same apps on iPhone and iPad.

 

[rlmccormick]

Word count?

I have seen it in numerous places where the word count feature (or lack thereof) was talked about as a big issue. I just don't get it. Why is this feature such a big deal?

 

[skeep5]

aw crap now i HAVE to buy an ipad.

 

[Macjames]

I have seen it in numerous places where the word count feature (or lack thereof) was talked about as a big issue. I just don't get it. Why is this feature such a big deal?

Ever been told to write a 5000 word essay, counting words yourself is a real pain.

 

[pyth]

Man, I was totally hoping that a better outlining tool would be implemented. It sucks how one can't tab (when using an external keyboard) to get bullets to indent. Apple, get on this!

THIS. I use my iPad to take notes in class with an external keyboard and this is the most irritating thing at all.

I have seen it in numerous places where the word count feature (or lack thereof) was talked about as a big issue. I just don't get it. Why is this feature such a big deal?

I would have agreed with you last week, but I had to write a paper and I used my iPad. Unfortunately there was a minimum word count, and I had to keep quitting Pages, opening Safari and using an external site for the word count. It's a HUGE time waster, especially without multitasking.