iWork Apps for Mac and iOS Updated With New Features, Apple Pencil Support on iPad

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Again, much thanks for the followup. I'm still resisting updating to "High Sierra" so presumably, the new iWork is still unavailable to me (until I do that, maybe with the .4 release).

I'm glad to see progress toward Pages '09 features... only 9 years later and still working on it. But any progress is better than no progress. Maybe Pages '19 or Pages '22 can "catch up" to Pages '09???

 

[sracer]

Again, much thanks for the followup. I'm still resisting updating to "High Sierra" so presumably, the new iWork is still unavailable to me (until I do that, maybe with the .4 release).

I'm glad to see progress toward Pages '09 features... only 9 years later and still working on it. But any progress is better than no progress. Maybe Pages '19 or Pages '22 can "catch up" to Pages '09???

Happy to help.

My macOS systems are running on Sierra (not High Sierra) and will remain at that level for as long as I own them.

 

[jordancrombie92]

Nice to see Apple's quality control team in action...

Had the Keynote icon then it disappeared about an hour after using it and now can't get it back! It's not even in appearing in my App folder either!

Also all of iWork kept crashing before I updated to the latest public beta and since it works perfectly fine, so maybe update MacOS first before iWork

 

[ColonialCylon]

Great update... if you want to use your Pencil to actually draw on top of your spreadsheets.

If you, like me, have been using the pencil for navigation such as for precision pointing on cells without having to zoom in to fingertip size, you will hate this update, as Numbers will now refuse to take any other input from the pencil than drawing. As soon the pencil touches the display, Numbers enters drawing mode. Again, if this was something you wanted, good for you. As I don’t plan on vandalizing my spreadsheets with scribblings like some toddler, I find the feature 100% annoying, and I can’t find a way to turn it off.

If Apple wishes to ban all use of the Pencil as an iPad ”mouse”, fine, but then do it consistently, system wide. Because the forced auto-switching just went from mildly disruptive to aggressively hostile.

The inability to use my pencil to navigate in numbers now is a HUGE problem for me. Drawing is neat and all but I want the ability to turn it off.

 

[AllergyDoc]

Obviously. But this is the first mention ever of "Box" and there is no more detail provided.

I thought it odd, too, considering Apple has it's own online storage (that it's going to give students for free). Perhaps Box has a decent presence in schools.