Hi all.
First time poster, but have perused the forums a fair while!
I've picked up iWork on release, and have enjoyed tinkering with Pages - it certainly isn't as powerful as Word, but it does have some incredibly nice templates which I tend to use for various work things.
However, the real jewel for me is Keynotes. I spent this weekend doing some presentation work for...erm...work, and I must say the ease of use of this compared to Powerpoint is phenomenal.
My knowledge of Powerpoint was pretty minimal certainly, and I'm sure with time, I'd be able to do something okay with it, but quite honestly the results I got for a first run in Keynotes was just eye-opening. Sure, I'm a sucker for eye-candy (some of the transitions are just brilliant), but at the end of the day I wanted to produce something which looks attractive, and was relatively interesting. And I think I got that done.
It's a relief to know that I can export things to Powerpoint too - everything at work is PC based, despite my better judgement, but there we go!
Anyone else use it, and been pleased with the results?
For the price, I really don't think it can be beat the moment.
First time poster, but have perused the forums a fair while!
I've picked up iWork on release, and have enjoyed tinkering with Pages - it certainly isn't as powerful as Word, but it does have some incredibly nice templates which I tend to use for various work things.
However, the real jewel for me is Keynotes. I spent this weekend doing some presentation work for...erm...work, and I must say the ease of use of this compared to Powerpoint is phenomenal.
My knowledge of Powerpoint was pretty minimal certainly, and I'm sure with time, I'd be able to do something okay with it, but quite honestly the results I got for a first run in Keynotes was just eye-opening. Sure, I'm a sucker for eye-candy (some of the transitions are just brilliant), but at the end of the day I wanted to produce something which looks attractive, and was relatively interesting. And I think I got that done.
It's a relief to know that I can export things to Powerpoint too - everything at work is PC based, despite my better judgement, but there we go!
Anyone else use it, and been pleased with the results?
For the price, I really don't think it can be beat the moment.