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iWork for iCloud Updated With Retina Support and Design Improvements, iOS and Mac Updates to Follow
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I don't believe that is true of the iPad apps though. I have Office provided by my university, but I can't use it on the iPad without a subscription.
So how much memory on my iPad am I going to lose this time for crap I'll probably never need? From iOS6 to iOS7 (not iWorks) it was over 2GBs. They just keep eating it up.
yea apple runs and built its whole business using microsoft office. Tim Cook is epcially fond of it as was Steve Jobs who insisted all apple employees use microsoft office and not iWork or any apple office software. Apple owes all its success to microsoft office
/sarcasm
Hallelujah! I can re-order the pages! I'm really glad Apple is sticking with it and gradually bringing back functionality. And the fact that it will behave the same on all my devices (plus online) is impressive.
iWork is optional. Just delete those apps or don't install them.
iWork is optional. Just delete those apps or don't install them.
I ditched Microsoft Office a loooonnnnggg time ago.... at least at home. I really like iworks and it solves all my needs at home. Even at the office, I actually think that 85-90 percent of what I do could be done with iworks and then it could be done easier and faster. The 10-15% I cannot do is related to Excel and things like pivot tables. I know others do scripting (but again mostly in Excel).
But really, for most people I believe iworks is fantastic.
Yeah but people were talking about the desktop apps. All in all for the desktop apps I see people on here constantly coming across as upset at the entire subscription method for Office 365 when Office has been available as a single purchase (still) just as it always has been. Office for iPad as a single paid purchase would be nice for those who want the full functionality without a subscription.
It really isnt - I am an app developer and web developer - websites you can typically just create the image double the size it needs to be and just set the size of the image in css/html to the size you want it to be - looks great on retina or non-retina displays, alternatively you could use css media queries, javascript to handle the difference (but this feels like a lot of extra work) or you could use a SVG vector but I have found browser compatibility to be under great so I keep away from that technique - however that will be the best way in the future.
Overall as long as you create the images double the size its really simple to do.
App wise the same thing just create it double the size and save it with @2x and then resize the image to half the size for the standard image. I use an application called ImageReducer which you can get on the App Store which resizes it for you to save time.
It really doesnt take long to do - I am sure in the future operating systems they will do away with @2x as the future OSs will stop supporting the old non-retina displays, I would imagine iOS is getting close to that point.
Select what you want to move, Command-X, click where you want it to go, Command-V. Same method that has been available on Macs for 30 years.
Now since you can have chapters with many pages, re-arranging pages will usually mess up your document. Imagine the latest Harry Potter book and pages 100 to 150 moved 200 pages further to the back.
RTL Support is improving!!!
I know a lot of you guys aren't really interested in this subject, but this release really improves the Right to Left languages support (Hebrew and Arabic)!
This is very exciting news!
Just for your common knowledge, Office for Mac doesn't support RTL languages at all, so up until the last version of iWork, there was no real Office suite for mac users in RTL speaking countries (you would have to install parallels and create documents only on a windows environment...)
Until now, Pages was the only app that officially supported RTL languages but now, Keynote support bidirectional text also!!! (Numbers still doesn't, but it seems that now it's just a matter of time until it will...)
Also, in Pages, they improved RTL support for other features (like fixing the broken Table of Contents feature...) which makes iWork finally a real alternative to Office domination (at least in the Word-Powerpoint area...) for RTL users!
I know a lot of you guys aren't really interested in this subject, but this release really improves the Right to Left languages support (Hebrew and Arabic)!
This is very exciting news!
Just for your common knowledge, Office for Mac doesn't support RTL languages at all, so up until the last version of iWork, there was no real Office suite for mac users in RTL speaking countries (you would have to install parallels and create documents only on a windows environment...)
Until now, Pages was the only app that officially supported RTL languages but now, Keynote support bidirectional text also!!! (Numbers still doesn't, but it seems that now it's just a matter of time until it will...)
Also, in Pages, they improved RTL support for other features (like fixing the broken Table of Contents feature...) which makes iWork finally a real alternative to Office domination (at least in the Word-Powerpoint area...) for RTL users!
Maybe it's just me, but I'm annoyed at the fact that I still can't right click the pages in the page thumbnails to do other stuff like I used to in Pages 09. Hope they'll add that feature back.
Google isn't even close. All they have is web versions of their apps. It's pretty easy to build some web apps and "sync" them over the cloud because they're only talking through one protocol/language back to your server.
Apple and Microsoft have full native desktop applications that sync with real native mobile applications that also sync with online web versions. So far, Microsoft hasn't been able to get all versions to sync with full fidelity like Apple has so far but at least they have ok compatibility.
Google is so far behind even Microsoft it's not even funny. All they have so far are feature limited web apps. Their competitor to Keynote and Powerpoint is just laughably bad. It's going to take Google a long time to catch up with what Apple and Microsoft are doing.
So true. And everyone should drive a Mercedes Benz until Toyota puts all of the same options in their car, since 99.9% of the population clearly can't get where they're going without those options....
The old version of Pages was far more than basic. The page layout features in particular were fairly advanced. Unfortunately these are the features Apple deleted in the "upgrade" version. I doesn't seem like they have returned yet.
Google drive app syncs with the web version. I don't care. I'm rather content with Google Drive plus iCloud.
I've have sent hundreds of .doc files exported from Pages to Word users and none have ever said "I can't open that."
PDF isn't an extra step, it's the most important step. But only if you care about your work product. If not, continue to send everyone Word files.
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If you had the old version, did you delete it? The installer (fortunately) kept the old iWord app versions. I didn't lose mine.
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Exactly. Unless you expect and want someone else to edit your work product, sending anything but a PDF is not only unnecessary, it's foolish.
If you're important enough, the world will conform to YOU and buy a Mac just to open your pages files.
See how fast you are unemployed!
When I first started using OSX, I was greatly impressed with Pages '09. I found it to be a terrific amalgam of MS Word and Publisher. So much so that I was hoping for an iWorks for Windows. (I was one of those oddballs that was a heavy user of ClarisWorks/Appleworks for Windows even though I hadn't used a Mac up to that point)
True, but I've had a few say, "what the heck did you send me?!"
(the file was nearly unrecognizable)QFT
I, too, have exported dozens and dozens of pages docs as Word docs, and everyone has been able to open them.
I love when I send Keynotes as PPT and colleagues don't see the magic move function that they witnessed on my iPad.
I LOVE the new Keynote upgrade! The ability to draw and highlight while in presentation mode is awesome.
I downloaded Word for iPad. It's fine, except when I backspace/delete a lot it doesn't speed up and quickly delete. It only does 3 characters at a time at most. Am I doing something wrong?
I love when I send Keynotes as PPT and colleagues don't see the magic move function that they witnessed on my iPad.
I LOVE the new Keynote upgrade! The ability to draw and highlight while in presentation mode is awesome.
I downloaded Word for iPad. It's fine, except when I backspace/delete a lot it doesn't speed up and quickly delete. It only does 3 characters at a time at most. Am I doing something wrong?