IWork / March 27, 2018; 8 months ago ( 2018-03-27) Written in, ( to ) (until 2009) and Website iWork is an of applications created by for its and, and also available cross-platform through the website. It includes, a; the and application; and the application. It is generally viewed as a office suite targeted at home and small business users, with fewer features than competitors such as Microsoft's and the open source project (and indeed its own earlier versions ), but has a simpler user interface, strong support and built-in links with Apple's iCloud document-hosting service and its Aperture and image management applications. Apple's design goals in creating iWork have been to allow Mac users to easily create attractive documents and spreadsheets, making use of macOS's extensive font library, integrated spelling checker, sophisticated graphics APIs and its automation framework.
The equivalent applications to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are, and, respectively. Although Microsoft Office applications cannot open iWork documents, iWork applications can export documents from their native formats (.pages,.numbers,.key) to Microsoft Office formats (.doc,.xls,.ppt, etc.) as well as to PDF files. The oldest application in iWork is Keynote, first released as a standalone application in 2003. Pages was released with the first iWork release in 2005; Numbers was added in 2007 with the release of iWork '08. The next release, iWork '09, also included access to, a beta service that allowed users to upload and share documents, now integrated into Apple's service.
An iOS port was released in 2010 with the first and has been regularly updated since. In 2013, Apple released a new OS X version and iWork for iCloud, a set of cross-platform web applications replicating the native software versions. IWork was initially sold as a suite for $79, then later at $19.99 per app on OS X and $9.99 per app on iOS. Apple announced in October 2013 that iOS devices purchased from September 2013 onwards and OS X computers purchased from October 2013 onwards, whether new or refurbished, are eligible for a free download of all three iWork apps. IWork for iCloud, which also incorporates a document hosting service, is free to all holders of an account. Then, in April, 2017, they released the suite, free for macOS and iOS. In September 2016, Apple announced that the real-time collaboration feature will be available for all iWork apps.
Contents. History The first version of iWork, iWork '05, was announced on January 11, 2005 at the and made available on January 22 in the and worldwide on January 29. IWork '05 comprised two applications: Keynote 2, a presentation creation program, and Pages, a word processor. IWork '05 was sold for US$79.
A 30-day trial was also made available for download on Apple's website. Originally held the rights to the name iWork. While iWork was billed by Apple as 'a successor to ', it does not replicate AppleWorks's and drawing tools. However, iWork integrates with existing applications from Apple's suite through the Media Browser, which allows users to drag and drop music from, movies from, and photos from and directly into iWork documents.
IWork '06 was released on January 10, 2006 and contained updated versions of both Keynote and Pages. Both programs were released as for the first time, allowing them to run natively on both PowerPC processors and the Intel processors used in the new desktop computers and notebooks which had been announced on the same day as the new iWork suite.
The next version of the suite, iWork '08, was announced and released on August 7, 2007 at a special media event at Apple's campus in,. IWork '08, like previous updates, contained updated versions of Keynote and Pages.
A new spreadsheet application, Numbers, was also introduced. Numbers differed from other spreadsheet applications, including, in that it allowed users to create documents containing multiple spreadsheets on a flexible canvas using a number of built-in templates. IWork '09, was announced on January 6, 2009 and released the same day. It contains updated versions of all three applications in the suite. IWork '09 also included access to a beta version of the service, which allowed users to share documents online until that service was decommissioned at the end of July 2012. Users of iWork '09 could upload a document directly from Pages, Keynote, or Numbers and invite others to view it online.
Viewers could write notes and comments in the document, and download a copy in iWork, or formats. IWork '09 was also released with the Mac App Store on January 6, 2011 at $19.99 per application, and received regular updates after this point, including links to and a high-DPI version designed to match Apple's with. On January 27, 2010, Apple announced iWork for, to available as three separate $9.99 applications from the. This version has also received regular updates including a version for pocket and devices, and an update to take advantage of Retina Display devices and the larger screens of recent iPhones.
On October 22, 2013, Apple announced an overhaul of the iWork software for both the Mac and iOS. Both suites were made available via the respective App Stores. The update is free for current iWork owners and was also made available free of charge for anyone purchasing an OS X or iOS device after October 1, 2013. Any user activating the newly free iWork apps on a qualifying device can download the same apps on another iOS or OS X device logged into the same App Store account. The new OS X versions have been criticized for losing features such as multiple selection, linked text boxes, bookmarks, 2-up page views, mail merge, searchable comments, ability to read/export files, default zoom and page count, integration with. Apple has provided a road-map for feature re-introduction, stating that it hopes to reintroduce some missing features within the next six months. As of April 1, 2014 a few features—e.g., the ability to set the default zoom—had been reintroduced, though scores had not.
In October 2014, writer commented on the numerous font handling problems that 'it's like we're back in 1990 again.' Due to using a completely new file format that can work across macOS, Windows, and in most by using the online iCloud web apps, means the current version of iWork (iWork 13) does not open or allow editing of documents created in versions prior to iWork 09, with users who attempt to open older iWork files being given a pop-up in the new iWork 13 app versions telling them to use the previous iWork 09 (which users may or may not have on their machine) in order to open and edit such files. Accordingly, the current version for OS X (which was initially only compatible with 10.9 onwards, and now only compatible with 10.10) moves any previously installed iWork 09 apps to an iWork 09 folder on the users machine (in /Applications/iWork '09/), as a work-around to allow users continued use of the earlier suite in order to open and edit older iWork documents locally on their machine. In October 2015, Apple released an update to mitigate this cumbersome issue, allowing users to open documents saved in iWork '06 and iWork '08 formats in the latest version of Pages. In 2016, Apple announced that the real-time collaboration feature will be available for all iWork apps, instead of being constrained to using.
The feature is comparable to, although as of December 2016 it is still in beta. Main article: is a word processing application. The latest edition is Pages 7.1, released on June 14, 2018. Besides basic word processing functionality, Pages includes templates designed by Apple to allow users to create various types of documents, including, invitations, and, along with a number of education-themed templates for students and teachers, such as reports and outlines. Pages 5, a complete redesign, removed more than 100 of the features of Pages 4.x, including bookmarks, mail merge, linked text boxes, multiple section capability, ability to set default zoom. It has been slowly adding some back in subsequent 5.x releases (default zoom, for example, can now be set, but still no linked text boxes, multiple select, mail merge, book marks, and more than 90 other features that were present in version 4.3).
Along with Keynote and Numbers, Pages integrates with Apple's iLife suite. Using the Media Browser, users can drag and drop movies, photos and music directly into documents within the Pages application. A Full Screen view hides the menubar and toolbars, and an outline mode allows users to quickly create outlines which can easily be rearranged by dragging and dropping, as well as collapsed and expanded. Pages includes support for entering complex equations with and for reference citing using. The Pages application can open and edit Microsoft Word documents (including and files), and documents. Pages 5 can no longer read or export documents.
Pages can also export documents in the DOC, PDF, and ePub formats. It cannot read or write file formats. As a word-processing application targeted towards creating attractive documents for a range of applications such as lesson plans and newsletters, Pages competes with, (never ported to OS X), Apple's own free and PDF authoring application, and Adobe's professional-market desktop publishing application. Main article: is an application used to create and play presentations. Its features are comparable to those of, though Keynote contains several unique features.
Keynote, like Pages and Numbers, integrates with the iLife application suite. Users can drag and drop media from, and directly into Keynote presentations using the Media Browser. Keynote contains a number of templates, transitions, and effects. Magic Move allows users to apply simple transitions to automatically animate images and text that are repeated on consecutive slides. Apple formerly released a Keynote Remote application for iOS that let users view slides and presenter notes and control Keynote presentations with an or over a network, but that functionality has been rolled into subsequent releases of the main Keynote iOS application. Keynote supports a number of file formats. By default, presentations are saved as.key files.
Keynote can open and edit Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) files. In addition, presentations can be exported as Microsoft PowerPoint files, movies (which are also playable on and iPhone), files, and files. Presentations can also be sent directly to, and to. The Keynote 09 file format is not backward compatible;.key files saved with Keynote '09 with earlier versions of Keynote. The latest version of keynote is Keynote 6.6, released in October 2015. Main article: is a spreadsheet application that was added to the iWork suite in 2007 with the release of iWork '08.
Numbers, like and other spreadsheet applications, lets users organize data into tables, perform calculations with formulas, and create charts and graphs using data entered into the spreadsheet. Numbers, however, differs from other spreadsheet applications in that it allows users to create multiple tables in a single document on a flexible canvas. Many prebuilt templates, including ones designed for personal finance, education, and business use, are included.
Numbers 2.0 was included with iWork '09, with several improvements. Charts that are pasted into Keynote and Pages are automatically updated across documents when they are changed in Numbers. Additionally, Numbers 2 lets users categorize data in tables by column, which can then be collapsed and summarized.
Numbers 3.6, released in October 2015, added in the ability to open Numbers '08 spreadsheets, among other things. Web services iWork.com iWork.com. Available in Multilingual Owner Website rank 3,565,463 (April 2014 ) Commercial Free while in beta; requires iWork '09 Registration Required Launched January 6, 2009 ( 2009-01-06) Current status Discontinued July 31, 2015 iWork.com was a free service that enabled users to share iWork '09 documents online directly from within Pages, Keynote and Numbers.
Users could click the iWork.com toolbar icon and login using their Apple ID to upload a document and invite others to view it online. Viewers could leave comments and notes on the document and download a copy in iWork, Microsoft Office, or PDF formats. Document owners could track comments at the iWork.com website. It was released as a on January 6, 2009 at the.
The iWork.com service provides a web interface for viewing, downloading, and commenting uploaded documents. In contrast to office applications such as and, it did not offer editing. IWork.com supported uploading of,. Users could download documents in both and formats, in addition to their native iWork formats. Uploading documents to iWork.com requires a copy of the iWork '09 software suite and an. Viewing, commenting, and downloading require only a web browser and an invitation to view the document.
Apple announced that after July 31, 2015, users will be no longer able to publish new documents to iWork.com from any iWork application. Documents stored on iWork.com will not be available to download or view after the shut down date. Instead, users can use iCloud to share documents between their computers (running ) and their.
Users attempting to access the iWork.com site are re-directed to the Apple homepage. IWork for iCloud.
Main article: During the 2013 (WWDC) keynote speech, iWork for iCloud was announced for release at the same time as the next version of the app versions of iWork later in the year. The three apps for both iOS and OS X that form Apple's iWork suite (, and ), will be made available on a web interface (named as Pages for iCloud, Numbers for iCloud, and Keynote for iCloud respectively), and accessed via the iCloud website under each users iCloud Apple ID login. They will also sync with the users iOS and OS X versions of the app, should they have them, again via their iCloud Apple ID. Later in 2013, iWork for iCloud update added support for real-time collaboration such that the same document could be opened by collaborators at the same time and everyone could make changes simultaneously. It took a few seconds for changes to propagate to other collaborators.
This, however, could not work together with iOS and OS X apps, which would cause 'out-of-sync' dialogs if editing together with collaborators using iWork for iCloud. In 2016, Apple announced that the real-time collaboration feature will be available to iOS and OS X apps. This allows the user to edit and create documents on the web, using one of the supported browsers; currently,. It also means that users now have access to these native –previously only Apple device– document editing tools, via the. IWork for iCloud has somewhat limited functionality compared to the OS X version. For instance, the fonts available are more limited and the web version doesn't fully support printing and may display documents created with the support of external plug-ins incorrectly/improperly. In 2014, iWork for iCloud update adds 8 languages, 50 new fonts and improved editing in the cloud-based versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote.
IOS apps On June 7, 2010, while showcasing the new iPhone 4, Apple posted a few screenshots of the device in action and inadvertently showed the possibility of opening an email attachment inside of Keynote, leading some to believe that an iPhone version of the iWork suite would soon be available in the. On June 28, 2010, several websites reported that in an attempt to sell AppleCare for the iPhone 4, several examples of services offered were given including one that read, 'Using iWork for iPhone and other Apple-branded iPhone apps.' These sites also report that it was quickly removed. On May 31, 2011, Apple released a press statement that iWork would be available on the iOS app store for the iPhone and iPod touch. On September 10, 2013, Apple announced that iWork, and would be available to download for free on new iOS devices activated after September 1. IOS app issues and missing functionality Pages:. Cannot redefine paragraph styles, but you can make additional styles.
Cannot add or control before/after paragraph spacing. Cannot customize the listing options and management. Cannot edit double page spreads (functionality was available in early versions) Numbers:. No trend lines. No error bars.
No tables in Arabic. No reduce file size. No Image resize. No pages numbering.
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Is iWork 08 compatible with a new computer running OS X Yosemite? I have a 2008 Mac Book Pro 15' that I just installed a new solid state 256g hard drive into last night using OS X Yosemite. I just installed iWork 08 from my original disc and now when I try and open a numbers (excel) file that I had created previously its blank except for the email link I created and the response time is very slow for scrolling or right clicking. Is the problem that iWork 08 isn't compatible with Yosemite? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi nativecustoms, From your description it sounds like you are trying to open your '08 file with Numbers 3.
Check to make sure what version you are running and try to open the file from within the program. Upgrading to '09 is a very good move in any case. It is a great improvement over '08 and many people prefer it to the most recent version Numbers 3. It will also insure that you will be able to access your old files going forward.
Once you have loaded '09 make sure you run all updates. You want to be running Numbers 2.3. Earlier versions of '09 run slowly on Yosemite. Thanks Quinn.
You are on the right track for sure but I'd like to add some details. My 08 Numbers files wouldn't open with iWork 08 or the Numbers program which I purchased from apple for $20 which must not have been the most up to date version of Numbers. I had to install iwork 09 in order to open the files and then they ran so slow I almost smashed my computer. Then I uninstalled the later version of Numbers that I had downloaded and also uninstalled iWork 08 hoping that would speed up the numbers speed buy no dice. I then checked for updates and downloaded a Numbers update which did the trick.but, I have to pay attention to which Numbers level I'm working in.
Each old file that I open brings up a window that lets me save the file as a Numbers 09 file BUT then as soon as I modify the document I get another window asking me if I want to convert the file to the latest Numbers edition. I have to convert to the latest Numbers edition in order for the program to run fast. If I work on the spreadsheet in Numbers 09 it still runs slow as. and really burns me. Hope this helps. Hello For Numbers '09 to run smoothly under recent OSes, you need to apply the following updater. IWork 9.3.
If your Numbers '09 is not from iWork '09 DVD, the updater above would not work because the updater assumes supporting libraries are at /Library/Application Support/iWork '09 which is the case with the DVD version of Numbers '09 whereas the MAS (Mac App Store) version of Numbers '09 contains supporting libraries in its own application bundle. Hope this helps, H PS. If you're not using the latest Numbers v3, you may simply delete it from your disk so that it will no longer mess up the files created with older versions of Numbers. Apple Footer.
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