I got the Mac and I just couldn't get used to Numbers. I'm so used to Excel that I haven't used Numbers at all.
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Apple Updates Pages, Numbers, and Keynote With New Features
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I use all three apps frequently. And all are a delight to use. Dumped Office around 15 years ago.
I love pages and its native nature. I tire of the Office sub model, and expect to leave it soon. All these subscriptions are just little vampires, quietly sucking my money away - each seemingly to painless to draw my attention, but the sum of these is becoming too much. I applaud and want to support Apple’s model.
I just feel like these apps are kinda stagnant for the past few years. I still remember when the changelog was big… Would love to see Apple invest on iWork, Keynote is my go to app for presentations, it’s very good IMO.
This is neat, I’m glad the team for this is still alive, hopefully, it’s not actually a chore that is rotated between teams..
I’d switch to Pages in a heartbeat, but my firm uses Office and there are always weird font things lost in translation when merging documents that switching is not feasible. I do try to work a full week with Pages at least once per year to see if any updates (for either app) have fixed my problems.
Use them every day.Mail merge? It’s 2022.
Make it look like Word where we dont know where all the options are ? there are so many options in word.excel I dont know where to find them, I have to use pivot, drop duplicates, text to columns other than this I would use numbers, I shifted to using keynote and pages long time ago. Numbers is slow with large data sets.
I agree, No ODF support equals lame, and also useless. Apple will eventually get tired of their apps and abandon them and their super secret format. As went Apple Works, and Claris Impact and their web page design program and who knows what else I've forgotten.
Nice update with mail merge and txt support. What’s up with negative comments above? Keynote and Pages are much better than Microsoft counterparts.
Numbers is perfectly fine for personal spreadsheets if you don’t need much automation. I used VBA and Excel daily at work, but have switched to Numbers for personal use since Mavericks.
Numbers is perfectly fine for personal spreadsheets if you don’t need much automation. I used VBA and Excel daily at work, but have switched to Numbers for personal use since Mavericks.
And that sounds like an easy task for a half of a programmer… to expose as many useful constants as possible.
But I don’t use numbers beyond some budgeting tryouts at some point (but settled for aggregator services in the end), loved the experience though, onboarded via an iPad Air to boot.
Maybe something to ask for on the Feedbacks/Bugs requests of Apple.
I use Numbers, Pages, and Keynote for personal use, Office 365 for work. Despite more limited features, I prefer the look and feel of Apple's productivity suite.
But one area needs a lot more work -- collaboration and syncing. Any changes should be synced as close to real time as possible. But in my experience, it just does not work consistently. Sometimes it takes several dozen minutes before the change is reflected on another device or user. This is probably an iCloud issue, but it reflects poorly on Apple's productivity suites where collaboration and sync need to work better.
But one area needs a lot more work -- collaboration and syncing. Any changes should be synced as close to real time as possible. But in my experience, it just does not work consistently. Sometimes it takes several dozen minutes before the change is reflected on another device or user. This is probably an iCloud issue, but it reflects poorly on Apple's productivity suites where collaboration and sync need to work better.
I disagree -- the iWork suite has been continuously update and provide a solid productivity platform across Mac, iPad and even the web version. I just noticed today you can do pivot tables in numbers for iCloud.
I would put iWork above the Google Docs platform. Pages is very good and has some desktop publishing capabilities and works very well with Word. It is far from awful.
Yes, I use LibreOffice regularly. But iWork never felt like it was full-featured to me.
I used to be that way - but once you get working with it - it serves very well. I use it for our small real estate business. With the larger table sizes (1 million rows) , pivot tables and new formulas - it is very useful.
Pages just blows Word away in easy of user and clean interface.
The old iWork apps (particularly Pages) had overall better and easier features, all of which have not gotten ported over to the new Pages, despite us being 8+ versions later. https://www.engadget.com/2013-11-06...-features-will-return-in-the-next-6-mont.html
And here's an archived list of all the features we were missing from iWork '09 since the update to Pages 5+. Bet you a lot of these are still missing.
Pages 5 features checklist | Apple Support Communities
Upload them via iCloud. Open your browser on your PC, go to iCloud.com, sign in. Click the app you want. Open/Upload your docs there. They'll then appear on your device(s) shortly.My 9th gen iPad came with these, but I'll doubt I'll ever use them. I still need to look up how to transfer files to and from there with my windows PC (this sort of thing used to be plug and play). Regardless, great to hear Apple's apps are getting regular updates!
I read this far looking for exactly such a post as yours. It’s absurd how many old features are only now coming back.