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| Apple iWork '08 Family Pack | 
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Category: Software
List Price: $99.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 128
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Mac Os X Intel
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Family Pack
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.1 x 0.8
MPN: MB625Z/A
Model: MB625Z/A
UPC: 885909140459
EAN: 0885909140459
ASIN: B000BX7H52
Release Date: August 11, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fantasticly classic October 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I REALLY like iWork '08 because it is a very capable office system. Numbers is a fantastic new concept in spreadsheet organization and data management. Keynote is wonderful compared to...errr... the competition which I have used for years. My only issue so far is the the graphing capability is extremely rudimentary compared to the other major competing office suite. One thing I really like about iWork is that it does not constantly get in my way by trying to always anticipate what I want to do. Instead it does only what I ask it to do. Oh yeah...and it's really inexpensive compared to the other major competing product line. Thanks Apple!
 Works fine. October 11, 2007
It's nice to be able to output .doc and .pps files, not just read them.
Highly recommended October 1, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
We own 3 iMacs and considered buying Microsoft Word. But when I learned that Pages will convert a Word document and has an easy-to-use spreadsheet, I decided to buy iWork. My 15-year-old daughter used Numbers to produce a graph showing the boiling/melting points of elements. It was finished in a matter of minutes and it really looks professional! I've used Pages to convert Word documents, without any trouble at all. I've yet to use Keynote, but I understand Al Gore used this program to produce his presentation on Global Warming in the documentary, " An Inconvenient Truth." Everyone has been impressed with this software.
IWork 08 excellent product September 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I find iWork 08 to be an excellent product. I am using Pages in lieu of WORD and now Numbers replaces Excell and even AppleWorks. Great value.
Finally ready for prime time September 17, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I used iWork '05 and '06 since they came out, and let me tell you, the upgrade to '08 is startlingly packed. I started using iWork when it became clear that Apple intended to dump the long-suffering Appleworks that I had so enjoyed for years and years. It always seemed unfair that such a feature-packed piece of software was left to languish in the OS X era, so I was excited to see what Apple had to offer in the way or a replacement when the original iWork was released.
I was sorely disappointed. Where was the spreadsheet module? Where were the drawing and painting modules? Why was word processing so slow and clunky? Granted, Keynote was great, but Pages left a whole lot to be desired. From the beginning, it didn't really seem to know what it was. Was it supposed to be "lite" desktop publishing? Were you supposed to be able to use it for standard word processing?
The '08 version of Pages changes all of this; finally, Pages is a worthy competitor to Microsoft Word in addition to its now-formidable desktop publishing abilities. It borrows the best ideas from both the Mac version of Word as well as the Windows version, and it's gained a truckload of features, like change tracking (finally!), grammar checking, easy Wikipedia lookups, a super-useful context-sensitive formatting bar, and what feels like a five-fold increase in performance.
Granted, Word has plenty of features that Pages lacks. But for that matter, Pages is full of things that Word goes without, like easy integration with iPhoto, the context-sensitive formatting bar, and the high price point. The basic point is that Pages is a stable, mature, full-featured word processor, and it feels a hundred times more like a proper Mac application than Word. If you're just now looking for a word processor, I strongly recommend you to take a look at Pages. It's got the features to stand up to the 800-pound gorilla or Word, and its compatibility is top notch; it can natively read and write the new .docx files, which the current Mac version of Word still can't do, embarrassingly enough.
As for Keynote, it just keeps getting better and better. It already blew PowerPoint out of the water in terms of ergonomics, usability, and output quality, so Apple just loaded it up with features. The non-linear animation in particular is just mind-bogglingly well implemented. I'm used to it through Maya and modo, but Apple has somehow managed to make it seem 100 times more comprehensible and accessible. I don't use Keynote ad much as Pages and Numbers, but it's also been substantially improved.
And now finally iWork includes a spreadsheet. Numbers is simply wonderful, plain and simple. It's just packed to the gills with useful time-savers, like the ability to drag in common mathematical operations, such as sum, average, min, and max. What's blindingly obvious is that Apple didn't just want to clone Excel. What they did was look at common usage patterns among spreadsheet users and make the common tasks amazingly easy. Need to sum up a couple of cells? Easy as pie, no typing required. Want to quickly find out the average of some other cells? Simply select then and you'll see that it's already been computed for you, and you can even drag that live average count into a cell to paste it as a formula. Genius! I can't even begin to express how much time this routinely saves me.
Numbers even includes an easy way to figure out the printable areas of your tables and easily adjust them accordingly. I remember this being a problem in the ancient version of Excel I used in middle school, and that Microsoft still hasn't really done anything about it is just embarrassing. Numbers also lets you make multiple charts and drag them around relative to each other, and Apple spends an awful lot of time going on and on about this feature. Really, it's cool, but to me, the much more valuable aspects of Numbers are the shortcuts I listed above that save truly enormous amounts of time. Numbers doesn't skimp. iWork finally has a spreadsheet, and it's not just another spreadsheet--it's my Excel killer. Finally!
You might have noticed the word "finally" an awful lot in this review. That's because iWork 08 is really the first version of iWork I confidently recommend to my friends when they ask me whether or not they should buy the Mac version of Word. iWork is really and truly ready for prime time for the first time in its life. To be honest, I can hardly contain my joy at Apple's phenomenal progress with iWork '08. It truly seems like iWork is a worthy competitor to Office, and the word that was put into iWork is shiningly obvious. iWork '08 is a diamond in the rough. No, scratch that, it's the diamond you've always wanted to replace the roughness of Microsoft Office with.
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