Apple Updates iWork Apps With New Features on Mac, iPad, and iPhone

[ikramerica]

Does anyone collaborate on iWork documents in the first place?

 

[Japan Ricardo]

I use Keynote and Pages regularly instead of Powerpoint and Word. The only reason I use Word at all is that most users are in either Google Docs or Word.

I’ve been Word and Excel free for several months now. Very liberating.

Occasionally I export something to Word or Excel format if the other person insists, but I’m never sure exactly what it will look like for them so prefer a PDF if they don’t need to play with it.

 

[Japan Ricardo]

I exclusively use the iWork suite. They’re more streamlined and intuitive than the monstrosities that Microsoft makes and I try not to use Google for anything if I can help it. It also helps that they are fully featured on iPad when MS Office and G Suite are (imo intentionally) nerfed for iPad.

They work really well through the iCloud web portal too if you need to use a PC to do some editing or other work from time to time.

 

[svish]

Good to see the updates. Definitely a good free alternate to Office apps.

 

[JippaLippa]

I seriously hope apple will implement some ai goodness in the iWork suite.
I'd love for example to describe what I'm after with a prompt, in Numbers or Pages

 

[CoreForce]

"on Mac" should be corrected to "on Mac with macOS 13.0 or later"

 

[Japan Ricardo]

*And* for some reason, they don't show up in the "Updated Recently" section, even though they've been updated, you know, recently.

Yes, it was all rather weird. Mine updated today while I was out, and when I came back my Wi-Fi wouldn't work even though it showed as connected and was working on my other devises. Restarting put my iMac into an endless shutdown with a spinning coloured wheel. I forced it off using the switch on the back, switched it back on again and all was well. But the Pages, Keynote and Numbers apps don't show in Updated Recently even though they have been...

All a bit Windows-esque.....

 

[ElectricPotato]

executives are busy with Hollywood TV and Movie stuff

Don't forget financial services. Yay.

 

[ivanpasic]

The only reason I don't use Pages is the lack of line numbering feature which for anyone who writes scientific papers is essential. I really don't understand why they don't just incorporate that in.

 

[ivanpasic]

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.

👆🏻 That! Every time I try to use iWorks I run into one limitation after another.

 

[Geoffb9]

The problem with iWork Apps is that I feel that there’s nobody at Apple working on them. Probably a couple of interns from now and then.

 

[izzy0242mr]

Press and hold the Command key to select noncontiguous words, sentences, or paragraphs

FREAKING FINALLY.

Pages 5/6/7/8+ does not allow non-contiguous text selection - submit feedback!

After Pages 4.3 got abandoned, the new Pages has lacked important and helpful productivity features. One of them is the ability to select multiple pieces of non-contiguous text so you can (a) perform word counts on sections of text or (b) edit formatting of a lot of parts of a document easily...

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[MacHeritage]

Now if only Pages had proper support for macOS Dark Mode. 😩

I'm not surprised it doesn't really support it since it's a program meant for corporate settings (when was the last time respectable office workers used dark mode on everything?), but even a relatively basic word processing program like TextEdit has full support for Dark Mode, so it's strange that Pages doesn't.

I actually think it has to do with colours. I find I do have issues with TextEdit and text colours. Example: Choose white text in dark mode and that can translate to white text on white background in other apps. Those kinds of issues. With a standard white background, you don't have any of them.

Pages is like dealing with paper. You always start with white and build up from there.

 

[MacHeritage]

I use Pages and Numbers for work and I know others who also use iWork exclusively for work and just export for Word and Excel sharing. Works just fine. They find iWork so much faster to work with and get things done compared to their MS counterparts.