We don't want a second MS Office, but
Just a thought on the new updates,
it's not that we want a second, more powerful MS Office-like Suite with iWork, after all, it is for the "rest of us", but please, at least keep the features that were in Pages 4.3 (and subsequently all the other iWork apps) and let us get the flexibility back.
I can't even change the toolbar anymore, I used to have all my important tools there, they're all gone into contextual menus, some don't exist anymore. It's much less efficient that way.
Also, I used to have multiple Inspectors up (with alt-clic), now it's really annoying, because although it's content sensitive, i.e. the right panel opens when clicking on a specified object, I'm constantly searching where I have to clic, it's really time consuming and totally inefficient. It kind of looks like MS Office, where you don't know where to clic either, because there are so many buttons.
Keynote is by far the worst update. Most of my documents have been destroyed. Animations replaced without warning, and best of all, because I wanted to be "connected", they're all on iCloud. Guess what, Time machine doesn't save iCloud documents, so they are permanently screwed. Thousands of hours of work trashed. There ARE reasons to be mad about these update, and I intend to write every day a feedback how stupid they consider their most trusted and long time customers.
I'm going to continue using the old apps, but first, I need to "export" back to iWork '09 some destroyed document and try as best as I can to fix the damages
Just giving my 2 cents.
Just a thought on the new updates,
it's not that we want a second, more powerful MS Office-like Suite with iWork, after all, it is for the "rest of us", but please, at least keep the features that were in Pages 4.3 (and subsequently all the other iWork apps) and let us get the flexibility back.
I can't even change the toolbar anymore, I used to have all my important tools there, they're all gone into contextual menus, some don't exist anymore. It's much less efficient that way.
Also, I used to have multiple Inspectors up (with alt-clic), now it's really annoying, because although it's content sensitive, i.e. the right panel opens when clicking on a specified object, I'm constantly searching where I have to clic, it's really time consuming and totally inefficient. It kind of looks like MS Office, where you don't know where to clic either, because there are so many buttons.
Keynote is by far the worst update. Most of my documents have been destroyed. Animations replaced without warning, and best of all, because I wanted to be "connected", they're all on iCloud. Guess what, Time machine doesn't save iCloud documents, so they are permanently screwed. Thousands of hours of work trashed. There ARE reasons to be mad about these update, and I intend to write every day a feedback how stupid they consider their most trusted and long time customers.
I'm going to continue using the old apps, but first, I need to "export" back to iWork '09 some destroyed document and try as best as I can to fix the damages
Just giving my 2 cents.
, there was nothing about MS Office that a "Power User" would need it for. Most people don't even use all the functions in Word. It's bad enough it's very complicated for even a "Power User".
