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| Apple iWork '08 Family Pack | 
 enlarge | From: Apple
Category: Software
List Price: $99.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 84
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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 Great improvement on Pages, worthy initial release for Numbers September 14, 2007
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
For the price, this office suite is a good choice for any Mac user. The family pack - for households like ours, where we have three macs - this is an obvious choice.
I'll not review Keynote - I abhor presentations and just avoid them like the plague. Nothing against the powerpoint (or in this case, Keynote) jockey - I just am not one and don't care for it. No, not even to open a presentation. I just don't.
Pages has advanced a lot as a word processor, and it is the most intuitive page layout system I've ever seem. In minutes you learn how to use text boxes, move them around, and add graphics to produce documents that look amazing. Pages is a ton better than neooffice's (free software) word processor and it holds its own to MS Word (that costs much more and has the usability and performance of a hog swimming in molasses). Apple provides a ton of useful templates, but I wish there was a community effort to produce more (there are some third parties selling templates).
Numbers is an interesting thing. It changes the idea of a spreadsheet by making the sheets independent of the printed page. You can have many independent or related sheets in the same page and arrange that in the most amazing layouts. My only complaint is the keyboard support - If you are entering a formula you will be required to use the mouse. For anyone that has used a spreadsheet application it is just natural to press the = sign and start moving around with the arrows to select cells. That simple, mindless act, is prevented in Numbers by the choice of having a formula editor that floats over the sheets. I suppose that makes sense since you can have disconnected sheets and the keyboard would not help navigating them, but I would prefer to have some keyboard navigation (maybe in the sheet where I'm placing the formula) than none. I've put in a request for a software update, but I'm not holding my breath. The conversion from and to Excel formats seems to work just fine (saving excel files has a small issue that is solved by running a command in terminal). If you need (or want) spreadsheets that look beautiful, you can't beat Numbers. If you are just looking for a quick way to munch on tabular data and make some calculations, neooffice (free software) is a better choice. Heck, if your needs are simple even Google spreadsheet will do the job. Nobody needs excel, since even Neooffice (and Google, and everyone else) does a good job opening that format too.
 So easy to use September 4, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought the 06 version and loved it.
I downloaded the trial version for 08 to see if it is worth the new price, afterall, I bought the 06 just not so long ago (maybe less than 3 months).
The new Numbers and Pages are just wonderful. It is so much more intuitive than MS Office. I have the Office for Mac and I have been using Office in Windows for the past 10 years. But ever since I started using Pages and Keynote, and now Numbers, I have to say hands down, iWork 08 is near perfection for 99.9% of all office needs.
I wish there were even more templates for all three apps. But with the included templates, one could modify them to create new templates fairly easy and quick.
My trial period is coming to an end in a couple of weeks. I will buy the iWork 08 for sure.
Recommended August 18, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The iWork 08 family edition which let you install it on 5 Mac's for only $99, so for those who are complaining about not having an upgrade then try buying MS Office. MS Office cost around $400 depending on which version you buy and if you want a upgrade it will cost you around $300. So I really don't understand what people are complaining about having no upgrade. This iWork 08 is very easy to use and easy to convert to for people who use MS Office. You just can't go wrong with buying iWork 08 for the price.
Buy It August 18, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just bought iWork 08 today and getting to know the in and out of iWork 08. But for the price of this software and compare to MS Office which is 4-5X as much in cost, iWork 08 is a bargain. Also, Family edition let you install it on 5 computers at home. iWork 08 just need a database software to make it complete.
Very good product, especially for the price August 18, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Keynote is the star of this suite. I routinely use it to create presentations that people can't believe. I work in an all -Windows shop, but I'll bring my Mac to do presentations with Keynote because I want to make sure I do as good a presentation as is possible, and I always have people telling me that my presentation is the best they've seen and that their presentations never seem to look as good. (Then they complain that their department doesn't let them use Apples.)
Pages is a decent page layout and word processor program. I usually use MS Word, just from habit, but I'm slowly converting. Numbers is the newest and weakest part of the package, and it will need an upgrade before I use it. But the suite is easily worth $99, even if Keynote is the only product I use.
And I know that some people complain about not having an upgrade price from earlier versions, but for those people, my recommendation is just to treat the $99 price as an upgrade price; it's still cheaper than a lot of other applications' upgrades. (And when you sell your machine someday, you can legally include the older version on the machine.)
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