WOW! Just WOW! iWork 08 is freaking awesome.

Submitted by plugz on Thu, 2007-08-09 12:45.

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Numbers I got it this morning and used it for my company reports.

Excel is dead to me.

Exporting to PDF is a dream, working with formulas is easy as pie and the abitlity to export to Excel, although not a perfect solution is great.

Now all I need is for them to port it to WIndows and I'm a very, very, happy bunny!

Keynote has had major improvement too.

I'll report more later when I've got iLife too and can do a full review of the new apps.

*tries desperately to resist urge to buy new iMacs.

ODF?

Submitted by Damien on Thu, 2007-08-09 13:52.

Does it support ODF, i.e. OpenOffice.org's default file formats? That would be a killer feature for me as I've got lots of files in ODF.

ODF?

Submitted by EG Design on Thu, 2007-08-09 18:23.

No support for ODF... well, I can't make it work anyway.

Not that I'm aware of...

Submitted by plugz on Thu, 2007-08-09 18:30.

...I've lond since abandoned MS Office and every other similar app for OS X because frankly they all sucked. You can import CSV files in to Numbers and it supports OpenXML as well as DOC, XLS, PPT etc. As I worked for ages as an analyst the Mac versions just don't cut the mustard for me, however iWork is the missing piece of the puzzle for me and I can now happily throw out the last remaining PC version of Office I've been using in Parallels.

So...

Submitted by geoff on Thu, 2007-08-09 17:04.

Do you like it?

Demo version available

Submitted by EG Design on Thu, 2007-08-09 18:41.

30 day fully-functional trial -

http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial/

I'm very pleased with it so far - handles word docs beautifully - tracks document changes better than Word for Mac. Numbers is far easier to use than Excel, and better looking besides. I have yet to play with Keynote.

$79 U.S. is completely worth it.

Can Pages export to HTML ? I

Submitted by tripdragon on Thu, 2007-08-09 20:20.

Can Pages export to HTML ? I saw that the trial does not. Not like it was good anyway

Why bother when you have

Submitted by plugz on Thu, 2007-08-09 22:11.

Why bother when you have iWeb as part of iLife

cause iweb has no real ultra

Submitted by tripdragon on Fri, 2007-08-10 14:55.

cause iweb has no real ultra tweaking like say the navigation bar
But the other bit I want to see is it' next version of if it has xhtml standards or not

I absolutely love it!!!

Submitted by onegirlcreative on Wed, 2008-09-10 22:37.

So much more intuitive than Microsoft Office, but then again, I was using the 2001 version of Office. Regardless, iWork '08 is so much nicer and easier, and the fact that you can export for .doc files, et al, is VERY nice.

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Having spent a while with it now some things do bug me...

Submitted by plugz on Sat, 2008-09-13 17:09.

It's not that fast. On the flipside it's twice as fast and stable as Office:mac.

Overall I still love it, I create all my company reports in Pages now, it's powerful enough to do DTP on a small scale without looking like it was done in Word and speedier than InDesign/Quark.

Overall I still love it, and can't wait for the next version.
I just need a few more chances to use Keynote, working in a Windows based company my presentations always get me a queue of people asking how I just did that... ;oD