Pages has never required typing in text boxes, or the use of objects of any kind, unless that's what you want -- which is why your rant mystifies me.
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Pages has never required typing in text boxes, or the use of objects of any kind, unless that's what you want -- which is why your rant mystifies me.
If you look more carefully you will notice a "Blank" template at the top of the list. This is, as the name suggests (and as IJ Reilly pointed out), is a "Word Processing" mode as you describe, with a simple set of seven text styles. It is very easy to modify those styles or create new text styles to suit your needs, then save as a template.
Keynote and PowerPoint
Just imported a PowerPoint presentation into Keynote 08. The formatting was all over the place so spent an hour on 69 slides getting them perfect- hit save and then restarted -- the formatting was a mess but a completely different mess from that on the importation. Sadly, I cannot use Keynote tonight as I don't have time to go back and fix. If this is typical, Keynote cannot be considered to be compatible with PowerPoint. fyi, there were no special formatting things done in the original PP so I have no idea why it was so screwed up. Certainly, the prior versions of Keynote were not perfect but this was catastrophic. Using a PB G4... maybe the Intel versions are better????
If this IS typical, Apple has really buggered this up royally!
Just imported a PowerPoint presentation into Keynote 08. The formatting was all over the place so spent an hour on 69 slides getting them perfect- hit save and then restarted -- the formatting was a mess but a completely different mess from that on the importation. Sadly, I cannot use Keynote tonight as I don't have time to go back and fix. If this is typical, Keynote cannot be considered to be compatible with PowerPoint. fyi, there were no special formatting things done in the original PP so I have no idea why it was so screwed up. Certainly, the prior versions of Keynote were not perfect but this was catastrophic. Using a PB G4... maybe the Intel versions are better????
If this IS typical, Apple has really buggered this up royally!
students are the next for apple to rip off.
not gonna buy iWorks or iLife 08... way too expensive.
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This kind of remark makes my head spin. Too expensive compared to what, free?
It's kind of interesting also that the new iWork reads all the new Office formats.........Now we know iWork will open these things we will probably be buying everyone a copy just for this purpose......Who wants to bet that the next Office actually comes out closer to next Summer?
Who knows if it'll ever be released at all
The main point for me is the actual price difference - right now iWork '08 is half the price of the Student/Teacher version of Office 2004 (does anyone ever buy the "full" version?) and if, as some have already written, it will cover the needs of 80% of Office users, then that's a huge loss of market share for M$ and the Redmond bean-counters might decide it's just not worth the trouble trying to turn around a dead-end project with serious quality issues.
congrats apple!!! though iwork is still in it's early stages, it's one step closer to bye bye ms office. keep up the good work!!!!
that's strange because I just opened a presentation without a hitch. Same thing with my multi page excel document. So far I am impressed.
I am pretty sure that is part of the website, not part of Safari. But yes, it does look like Vista.
Bummer
It's quite bold to assume that "most people who think Office is 'for them'" don't use spreadsheets for anything more complex than what you use them for.
As far as I can tell, Numbers is lacking simple features like adding trend lines to scatter plots.
It looks great, but I wish it was useful to me.
It's quite bold to assume that "most people who think Office is 'for them'" don't use spreadsheets for anything more complex than what you use them for.
As far as I can tell, Numbers is lacking simple features like adding trend lines to scatter plots.
It looks great, but I wish it was useful to me.
I'll admit to using Excel for this kind of thing as well, but the unfortunate truth of the matter is the Excel is lousy at this too. So much so that I wish it wouldn't be supported at all, so people don't use the wrong tool for plotting and data analysis. At least if you can't do it you won't be tempted.
Too bad, I was hoping to be able to use Numbers for some
"simple" stuff. This and the other comments saying that it was super slow, make it less of a win than I was hoping for. Back to spreadsheets.google.com for the simple stuff and MATLAB for real work.
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Delaying your product and then days later the computer maker comes out with an advanced version, that's "wow."
It's good that this came out today, just in time for school.
It's good that this came out today, just in time for school.
Limited Hyperlinks in Pages
I was hoping the new version of Pages would allow creation and export-to-PDF of hyperlinks to external documents. This is important to a multi-PDF project I'm working on.
I downloaded the trial version and read the new user guide. That feature was not included.
I was hoping the new version of Pages would allow creation and export-to-PDF of hyperlinks to external documents. This is important to a multi-PDF project I'm working on.
I downloaded the trial version and read the new user guide. That feature was not included.
What!!!
Look at what Microsoft charges for Office and Vista before you label anything as too expensive.
Look at what Microsoft charges for Office and Vista before you label anything as too expensive.
