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Apple Updates Pages, Numbers, and Keynote With New Features

Scubaman said:
Suggestion for Apple! Stop trying to compete with Office - it’s game over. Redeploy these resources to Apple AirPort Extreme and Airport Express WiFi Routers! These are critical devices - I’m still using mine and they’re 5 years out of date!
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Yes Apple, stop updating three perfectly functional apps that are free for all Mac users, and redeploy all those software engineers into building new wifi hardware that most people aren't going to buy at a premium because a router is a household item already.
They're five years out of date because Apple pulled out of the router market. Go buy a new Linksys or Netgear or whatever and move on. I'm sorry it's not a nice pretty white color like your AirPort. It's fine.

They aren't competing with Office, they are providing free Office-alternative software to entice the average user to switch to Mac. "Game over" indeed.
 
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MauiPa said:
seriously? open excel docs in numbers, export numbers to excel. nothing could be simpler
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Virtually none of the Excel functions I used work in Numbers. Virtually none of the functions I used in Numbers work in Excel. The specific file used lots of time/date functions.
 
Those dynamic backgrounds in keynote are exactly what I'd want as a desktop wallpaper. They look great!
 
Slartibart said:
if the iDevice (with iOS/iPadOS >=13) and your desktop are on the same network you can create a shared folder on the desktop and copy from and to it from your iPad or iPhone. Works similar with a Mac.
Otherwise you can use a NAS or likewise a router (as long as it allows to connect external storage) or - depending on your iPad - a dual Lightning-USB A-, Lightning-USB-C-, or USB A-USB C-stick.
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We're good on the device. 9th gen Ipad on ios15.4.1.

Huh, reminds me of when I was on my iPod Touch 3 (IIRC, running ios5?), and I also had to transfer files for the Documents To Go app through the same wifi network.
 
TinaBelcher said:
Those apps are, in my opinion, awful. I can't work with the toolbar being to the right side, and the tables interaction is awful. I hate to say it, but make it look like Docs/Word
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having a personal opinion can hit a nerve with others. loves it
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Awesome updates to Keynote. That dynamic background option is super interesting and I love the way there are 'generators' for your own effects. Seems like a whole new API that could end up in other things too.

People bashing iWork should try keeping multiple files open like I do in all three apps. Tabs are such a productivity boost and MS has still to adopt them, along with so many other core OS features.
 
joshdammit said:
Yes Apple, stop updating three perfectly functional apps that are free for all Mac users, and redeploy all those software engineers into building new wifi hardware that most people aren't going to buy at a premium because a router is a household item already.
They're five years out of date because Apple pulled out of the router market. Go buy a new Linksys or Netgear or whatever and move on. I'm sorry it's not a nice pretty white color like your AirPort. It's fine.

They aren't competing with Office, they are providing free Office-alternative software to entice the average user to switch to Mac. "Game over" indeed.
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And these updates don't come with performance hits and snags that are increasing in office. Eventually iWork will be a suitable replacement for Office. I can interchange powerpoint and word documents between Office and iWork fairly easily. For personal and small business needs - iWork does just fine.
 
I would move from MS Office to iWork in a second, only if I could open and edit office documents transparently. Right now, Pages (for instance) doesn't open but imports Word documents and you have to export them to save them into Word format. Too many steps when you work with other people and edit many office documents daily.
 
rbwca said:
I’ve tried it on both IOS and MacOS and all I can do is generate a new document that has all the merged text (for example 10 copies of a form letter to print). There is apparently no way to have each individual copy of the merged document sent as an email to the recipient.
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That bites! They were touting mail merge as a feature improvement for the most recent release notes. I guess your mileage may vary, applies.
 
urnotl33t said:
On windows PC directly? Doubtful. If you got a spiffy iPad with the newfangled usb stick support, either USB-C or maybe a usb dongle (but the new one, not the old one like I got.. boo), you can stick the usb ...stick.. into the iPad and copy with the files app. Do it this way if you have a lot of files; iCloud.com would be painful.
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I'll have to see if a 9th gen iPad supports this. Not a fan of no more plug and play. I guess it was too much of a security risk? However, I can't say I didn't see this coming. I kinda suspected it would be like this with iOS devices these days.
 
ackmondual said:
I'll have to see if a 9th gen iPad supports this. Not a fan of no more plug and play. I guess it was too much of a security risk? However, I can't say I didn't see this coming. I kinda suspected it would be like this with iOS devices these days.
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In older iTunes, you could copy something like that around somehow. It's been so long since, I've forgotten how it works. Now you can just sneaker-net it over with a usb stick in some fashion.

Apple says your 9th gen iPad came with a lightning to USB-C adapter. I'm not sure if that's "enough" to connect a USB-C storage stick, tho. You might have to get the lightning-to-USB-3 adapter. Make sure it's USB3, and not the cheaper USB one (the mistake I made without paying closer attention). If it looks the same, get the one with more $ in the price.

With one of those options, you should be in business. SO LONG AS YOUR STICK IS FORMATTED FAT32. Many sticks and disks come formatted for NTFS. Be warned.

Good luck.
 
urnotl33t said:
In older iTunes, you could copy something like that around somehow. It's been so long since, I've forgotten how it works. Now you can just sneaker-net it over with a usb stick in some fashion.

Apple says your 9th gen iPad came with a lightning to USB-C adapter. I'm not sure if that's "enough" to connect a USB-C storage stick, tho. You might have to get the lightning-to-USB-3 adapter. Make sure it's USB3, and not the cheaper USB one (the mistake I made without paying closer attention). If it looks the same, get the one with more $ in the price.

With one of those options, you should be in business. SO LONG AS YOUR STICK IS FORMATTED FAT32. Many sticks and disks come formatted for NTFS. Be warned.

Good luck.
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there are additionally USB-whatever-2-Lightning-sticks available which work out of the box with an iPad. And most are now formatted ExFat - which works immediately, as well as FAT, FAT32, or APFS.
 
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