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iWork
Developer(s)Apple Inc.
Stable release
iWork '09 Update 3 / September 28, 2009
Operating systemMac OS X
TypeOffice suite
LicenseProprietary
Websiteapple.com/iwork

iWork is a suite of applications created by Apple Inc. It contains Pages, a word processing and desktop publishing application, Keynote, a presentation package, and Numbers, a spreadsheet application.[1]

Although iWork is billed by Apple as "a successor to AppleWorks",[2] it does not replicate the functionality of AppleWorks's database and drawing tools.[3] iWork is designed to integrate with existing applications from Apple's iLife suite.[citation needed]

Components

Pages

Main article: Pages

Pages is a word processing and page layout application with an emphasis on visual appeal. It comes with a set of Apple-designed templates for documents including:

Pages incorporates a media browser for inserting pictures, music, and video from iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie. Pages allows the user to save or import formats including:

Keynote

Main article: Keynote (presentation software)

Keynote is a slideshow application with an emphasis on presentation. It is similar in many ways to Microsoft's PowerPoint, but contains several features native to the iWork suite. Keynote makes use of iLife integration by including a media browser for inserting pictures, music, and video from iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie. Keynote also features the ability to include animation in slideshow presentations. Keynote is quite versatile in its ability to recognize and save to many formats, including:

  • Keynote presentations (.key)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (.ppt)
  • QuickTime movies (.mov), which may be interactive depending on one's choice.
  • Basic HTML, which allows the presentation to be played in multiple browsers.,
  • iPod, allows for presentations to be transferred directly to a portable device. (play back comes only in automatic timing or a recorded timing),
  • PDF Acrobat PDF document (.pdf)
  • Import any image format recognized by QuickTime, export several image formats (.jpg, .png or .tiff)

Numbers

Main article: Numbers (software)

Numbers is a spreadsheet application that was added in iWork '08. It incorporates features such as intelligent tables, a flexible canvas and interactive printing.

It is the first spreadsheet application developed by Apple since AppleWorks.

iWork.com

Main article: iWork.com

iWork.com is a beta service which enables iWork users to upload their documents to iWork.com servers so that it can be shared with others who can download or give feedback to the document. iWork.com is currently free as a beta but will be a subscription based service as iWork.com is completed.[4]

History

iWork '05

iWork '05 was launched on January 11, 2005 (2005-01-11) and featured the new version 2 of Keynote and the first release of Pages. Before it was released, what would essentially become iWork was rumored to be an add-on, upgrade, or new release of AppleWorks.[2]

iWork '06

On January 10, 2006, Apple introduced iWork '06 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, which upgraded Pages to version 2 and Keynote to version 3.[5] New features common to both applications included 3D charts, tables with formula support, reviewer comments, and shaped image masking. The addition of tables with formula support may have been added to quiet rumors of an Apple spreadsheet application. Since iWork's focus is on presentation, Apple incorporated a way to put most common spreadsheet features into a table while providing only limited additional functionality. iWork '06 drops support for PowerPC Macs with G3 processors. It was also the first Universal binary version to run on both PowerPC and Intel Macintosh computers.

iWork '08

iWork '08 was announced on August 7, 2007 at a special event at Apple's Cupertino campus. New versions of Pages and Keynote were introduced, as was a new spreadsheet application, Numbers. Despite this, hard disk space requirements were reduced from 1.85 GB in iWork '06 to 690 MB in iWork '08. iWork '08 marked the end of AppleWorks, which was discontinued a week later.[6] iWork '08 dropped support for Mac OS X 10.3 'Panther'. It was also the first version that was ready to be run on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) once Leopard shipped.

iWork '09

iWork '09 was announced on January 6, 2009. The entire suite was updated, and includes among other improvements support for iWork.com. Notably, the new version of Keynote added the ability to control presentations with an iPod Touch or iPhone via the Keynote Remote application.[7] It was also the first version of iWork to be included in a Mac Boxed Set along with Mac OS X Leopard (now Snow Leopard) and iLife '09.

See also

References

  1. ^ Apple Introduces iWork ’08
  2. ^ a b Apple press release Apple Unveils iWork '05
  3. ^ http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/an-introduction-to-bento-the-missing-database-app-iwork-should-have
  4. ^ Lendino, Jamie (January 7, 2009). "Hands On: Apple iWork '09". PCmag. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
  5. ^ Apple press release Apple Announces iWork '06
  6. ^ Evans, Jonny (2007-08-15). "Apple cans AppleWorks". Macworld UK. Retrieved 2007-08-15.
  7. ^ "Apple - iWork '09 - Keynote". Apple, Inc. January 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-14.

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