I bet Apple forgot about them too 😂I honestly forget that iWork exists... and its installed on my Mac...
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Apple Updates iWork Apps With New Features on Mac, iPad, and iPhone
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*And* for some reason, they don't show up in the "Updated Recently" section, even though they've been updated, you know, recently.
I like iWork apps but Apple needs to update the design to appeal to a wider audience.
For instance, placing all the formatting options within Format sidebar is a stark contrast to how Microsoft Office or Google Workspace works. You can customize the toolbar to behave in more classic way, but many people aren't going to feedle with it. So offer a choice.
For instance, placing all the formatting options within Format sidebar is a stark contrast to how Microsoft Office or Google Workspace works. You can customize the toolbar to behave in more classic way, but many people aren't going to feedle with it. So offer a choice.
Yes, I remember being able to do this in pages years ago, but it was with the option key instead of command. A quick search indicates that this was removed around 2013.
They’re good apps but I’d like some stronger page layout features. Whenever I use Pages I always bump into a limitation. My most recent example was inserting a multi page PDF. Pages should have the option to automatically insert all pages, not just the first.
One thing I’d love (for making visuals quizzes) is the ability (available in PowerPoint) to select an album or group of Photos and create a slideshow from them. As it stands I have to manually add each photo to a slide. Not the end of the world but for a quiz with 50 to 100 questions/slides, it’s a lot of time and effort.
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I honestly forget that iWork exists... and its installed on my Mac...
I use it a lot. As my main office software suite. It seems like Apple kind of forgets that it exists. This update is pretty pitiful
I don’t understand why Apple has so much trouble just continuously updating software and hardware. Why do some apps and computers go years without significant updates? Why do iOS and Mac OS get constant, buggy updates?
Their software engineering management is just a mess right now
I find your comment supper weird. Pages has 100% dark mode Support. I use it every day since it was lunched various years ago. What do you mean?
I used Keynote for work and received compliments all the time until they forced me to use Powerpoint, it sucked and so did the presentationsI honestly forget that iWork exists... and its installed on my Mac...
I use Keynote everyday!! Way better than PowerPoint.
Ugh. Every time there's an update to Pages I eagerly download it to see if Apple has finally added back features from iWork '09 that are still not in the rewritten version... like, linked text boxes that retain their order in the "chain" regardless of where the boxes appear in the document.
This latest version of Pages still reorders the flow of text so that the text flows from the textbox on page n to the textbox on page n+1 regardless of the original order of the boxes in the linked chain.
In other words, it is impossible with the latest version of Pages to have a text box on page 2 linked to a textbox on page 1 and have the text flow from the box on page 2 to the box on page 1.
oh well.
This latest version of Pages still reorders the flow of text so that the text flows from the textbox on page n to the textbox on page n+1 regardless of the original order of the boxes in the linked chain.
In other words, it is impossible with the latest version of Pages to have a text box on page 2 linked to a textbox on page 1 and have the text flow from the box on page 2 to the box on page 1.
oh well.
For whatever reason, I never really noticed it, but... you're right. I would like that as well (if only to make the text white and the background black).
My thoughts on iWork:
- Pages, I use it rather than Word. Its much easier to use and understand.
- Keynote, miles ahead of Powerpoint.
- Numbers, its a nice lightweight spreadsheet good for most of my purposes but doesn't measure up to Excel for high end users.
Tho' I really like iWork I 100% agree on iWork '09. Don't know why Apple allowed those major step backs to happen.
Will there ever be line numbering again for pages? I guess not. Americans don't use this? I don't understand, it's the only thing that forces me to use Word from time to time as I am a history teacher and we need to present texts with line numbering.
I am not saying that they are not great apps, I just forget about them.
How about let us save natively and by default in the Microsoft formats so we dont have to manage a .pages and an exported .docx and such... THAT would be an improvement! This "update" is just blah
I still heavily use and rely on Pages and Keynote. They are my go-to apps. When I need to produce material in-house, I use Pages. I had some pretty advanced formatted documents in iWork 09 that I've had to "dumb down" for the newer version.
Here's a handy side-by-side comparison between TextEdit and Pages:
Now it IS possible to make a Pages document have white text on a black background, but then if you view it in light mode (or export the same document to any non-Pages format, like PDF), it will still have white text on a black background, which just looks silly on light mode.
Contrast this with TextEdit: it automatically and seamlessly switches between Light Mode and Dark Mode. The exact same document will have white text on a black background in Dark Mode, but then have black text on a white background when viewed in light mode (or, again, if you export it to another format like PDF). All of this is done automatically, with zero effort on the part of the user. You don't even have to think about it; It Just Works.
To recap:
TextEdit: Automatic. Seamless. Magical™, even.
Pages: None of those things, and also a pain in the rear when it comes to switching between Dark Mode and Light Mode. Which is odd, considering it's technically a product people can buy, whereas TextEdit has always been free. Why is Apple's PAID word processor less convenient than the free software bundled with the operating system?
Pages in a corporate setting? I have never ever received a Pages document in a corporate setting.
Word on the other hand, the word processor for corporate settings, has dark mode. And I use it all the time. When it’s dark.
Aaahh, iWork. Takes me back to the early days of Mac OS X when I was rooting for Apple to come up with a MS Office alternative. Every little new feature was welcomed in the Mac community as that update would be the tipping point iWork would conquer the world and beat Office.I honestly forget that iWork exists... and its installed on my Mac...
But Office became better on the Mac and Apple stopped updating iWork for a long time (I can’t remember if did they had to by Microsoft in exchange for Office support?) but it never bounced back.