Apple iWork '06 (Mac DVD)

Average customer rating: 4.5

iWork
Ease of iWorks
Perfect Apple
A converted Apple user...
Excellent

Similar Items:

Apple iLife '06 (Mac DVD)
Apple .Mac 4.0 Online Service
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 (Mac)
Parallels Desktop for Mac (Intel Mac)
Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2004 Macintosh

Listmania:

PowerPoint Tips for Lawyers
Things New Mac Owners May Want
Making the Mac Experience

Apple iWork '06 (Mac DVD)

Manufacturer: Apple
Product Group: Software
Binding: DVD-ROM
ASIN: B0007LW23A
2006-01-18

Related Categories:

Illustration

| Graphics | Categories | Software

Professional Design

| Graphics | Categories | Software

Image Capture

| Graphics | Categories | Software

Home Publishing

| Graphics | Macintosh | Categories | Software

Other Graphics & Multimedia

| Graphics | Macintosh | Categories | Software

Apple Brand Software

| Macintosh | Categories | Software

Music Appreciation

| Video & Music | Categories | Software

Apple

| Brands | Software

For the Mac Addict

| Gifts by Theme | Gifts | Specialty Stores | Software

Under $100

| Gifts by Price | Gifts | Specialty Stores | Software

Mac OS X

All Apple

| Apple | Computers Brands | Computers Features | Electronics

Software

| Apple | Computers Brands | Computers Features | Electronics

Home Publishing

| Graphics | Software | Products |

Amazon.com

iWork '06 features two powerful applications for creating everything from school newsletters to business presentations. With Pages 2, you can quickly create a wide variety of stunning documents. With Keynote 3, you can produce cinema-quality presentations, storyboards, and more. iWork '06 lets you express yourself with style.

<table align=left width=250 cellpadding=10> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/iwork06-1.jpg" border=0 align=top>

<small><b>Pages 2 helps you create stunning documents quickly and easily.</b> <small></td></tr></table> <table align=right width=250 cellpadding=10> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/iwork06-2.jpg" border=0 align=top>

<small><b>Choose from beautiful document templates.</b> <small></td></tr> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/iwork06-3.jpg" border=0 align=top>

<small><b>Reviewer comments make it easy to collaborate.</b> <small></td></tr> </table> <b>Pages 2</b>
Introducing Pages 2. Thanks to new text and image editing tools, it's the easiest way to look good in print. Use Apple-designed templates to build stunning documents in minutes. Quickly add photos with the built-in iLife Media Browser. Format your text in minutes with elegant predefined styles. Add punch to your page with multiple columns, self-calculating tables, and engaging 3D charts.

Add modern design -- Start with a template in Pages 2 and your document is halfway to gorgeous. Choose from 25 new templates, including posters, flyers, scrapbooks, folding cards, technical reports, business invoices, proposals, screenplays, and storyboards.

Top the charts -- Pages 2 lets you add beautifully designed 3D charts to any document. Edit your chart, then position it perfectly using the 3D rotation wheel. From there, you can add even more depth and realism by applying multiple lighting styles, angles, reflections, and shadows.

Get in shape -- Explore your options with curves, shapes, and masks in Pages 2. Choose from new shapes, insert the one you like best, then customize it by adding points or sides. You can even create custom shapes using new Bezier curves. When you're done creating the perfect shape, you can use it to mask any photo in your document.

Put it on the table -- Leave it to Pages 2 to make mere tables more interesting. Add text, graphics, and photos to tables, then get ready to do the math: tables in Pages 2 let you perform spreadsheet-style calculations without ever leaving your document -- a perfect solution for adding numbers late in the game.

Sign, seal, deliver -- Never again fear the mail merge. Pages 2 boasts seamless integration with Mac OS X Address Book, so creating personalized documents for individuals or groups is suddenly simple. Stationery templates offer predefined Address Book links: all you do is drag in contacts and Pages automatically personalizes your documents to match.

Thank you, notes -- With new reviewer comments in Pages 2, you can take notes. Type reminders, to-dos, or revision notes right on your document. Every comment you make appears in a handy sidebar that won't affect layout or pagination. Plus, you can easily hide comments so they won't clutter up your document and keep you from the important business of writing, editing, and printing.

<table align=left width=250 cellpadding=10> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/iwork06-4.jpg" border=0 align=top>

<small><b>Keynote 3 offers the easiest way to create stunning presentations.</b> <small></td></tr></table> <table align=right width=250 cellpadding=10> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/iwork06-5.jpg" border=0 align=top>

<small><b>Choose from beautiful presentation templates.</b> <small></td></tr> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/iwork06-6.jpg" border=0 align=top>

<small><b>Wow your audience with beautiful transitions and effects.</b> <small></td></tr> </table> <b>Keynote 3</b>
Grab and hold your audience's attention with Keynote 3, the latest generation of Apple's stunning presentation software. Perhaps you'd like to make a business proposal. Highlight the quarter's results for investors. Dazzle viewers with your photos of the southwest. Whatever your story, make it into an exquisite presentation with laser-sharp graphics.

Captivate any audience -- Transitions and effects in Keynote 3 help you build cinema-quality presentations. New transitions give you more choices for transporting your audience from slide to slide, flexible text animation puts your words in the spotlight, and interleaved builds offer additional options for every element in your slides.

Enjoy variations on a theme -- Themes in Keynote 3 include everything you need to maintain a consistent look and feel throughout your presentation. Keynote 3 offers eye-popping new HD themes ideal for high-definition displays (1920x1080 resolution), as well as new themes for standard-definition displays. Plus, themes now include a coordinated set of textures and colors designed for 3D charts, and master slides with bulleted text in multiple columns.

Shape your slides -- Add some artistic influence to your presentation, thanks to 10 different shapes in Keynote 3. Choose from stars and polygons, then customize your shapes by adding points and sides. And if you can't find the perfect shape, new Bezier curves let you personalize existing shapes or create your own from scratch. When you're done shaping up, you can easily mask a photo using any standard or custom shape.

You can compute -- With room for text, graphics, and photos, tables in Keynote 3 let you perform simple, spreadsheet-style calculations without leaving your slide. That means you can change your presentation on a dime -- even if final data arrives late.

Duly noted -- Note to self: let Keynote 3 help you organize your thoughts with new reviewer comments. Leave yourself presentation pointers, jot down a list or two, even incorporate feedback from rehearsals. These handy comments behave like sticky notes, so they're easy to write, edit, and move around on your slides. Plus, they disappear in presentation mode, keeping everything clutter-free.

Product Description

iWork 06 lets you choose an Apple-designed template, then add your own text, charts, tables, shapes, and iLife photos, movies, and music. Create eyecatching three-dimensional charts, tables with calculations, freeform shapes and photo masks, and more. Pages 2 includes mail merge, auto-correction, and new Page Thumbnails and Search views. Keynote 3 features stunning new animation effects, a Light Table view, and tools to help you rehearse, present, and publish with ease. The powerful new features in iWork 06 make it easy to get just the look you want.

Customer Reviews:

iWork.......2007-05-09

This is an awesome program for those who are looking for a better presentation. Great software!

Ease of iWorks.......2007-05-07

I got this mostly for KeyNote. I haven't really done anything but play with it yet, but it looks like it will do a bang up job. I'm an old PageMaker user. Just now starting to work with InDesign, so pages isn't something that I will be using. But my wife uses it! This is a good thing. She dose a news letter for work. Before iWork I did most of the layout for her. But with Pages she now does the whole thing start to finish, and on my Mac on less. (she is a PC user)

Perfect Apple.......2007-04-08

iWork certainly has enough quirks to solicite criticism: Pages is terribly counterintuitive for a beginner, is not as powerful as Microsoft Word, and the suite lacks a spreadsheet program.

But, I suppose, having been manipulated by Microsoft for all our lives, Apple gets a break. The only reason Pages seems difficult to grasp at first is because we've been force fed Microsoft Word for fifteen years; we're used to seeing the layout a certain way, and that's what we're comfortable with. Apple changed all that with Pages, so there is a learning curve, even though Pages is much simpler to use than Word.

In any case, even if you intend to remain with Microsoft Word (the recent 2007 release being a new leap in programming, by the way) Apple's Keynote presentation software is more than enough to excuse the price tag. Keynote is elegant, easy to use, very powerful, and incredibly addictive.

As is true with all Microsoft software, using PowerPoint is an experience to be dreaded. Not only do you constantly fear of a frozen program but also bugs with which to contend. Now, instead of concentrating on the project, you must also try to remember to backup the information every five minutes, be careful not to hit the wrong keystrokes to solicite an angry, childish response from PowerPoint, and sweetly cajole your computer to remain cooperative until you can save again. And the experience is no less dreadful on a far more reliable Mac. The software just doesn't seem to communicate with the system. PowerPoint is like a spoiled child, constantly throwing tantrums and causing hell.

Keynote is like your neighbor's good son. You wish you could have given birth to such a wonderful child. Well...

Apple's presentation software is, as stated before, simple. No mucking about with it as in PowerPoint. The layout is very intuitive; the templates are shockingly more elegant than whatever PowerPoint gets shipped with; and the software comes with helpful utilities to maximize efficiency and productivity (as well as fun): from powerful calculation tables to shape-forming slide cutters to sticky notes that you can apply to invidual slides as reminders for further development, Keynote has it all to make presentation development a breeze.

iWork is typical Apple...perfect.

A converted Apple user..........2007-03-23

I've been using Windows products for as long as I can remember, and only had a few complaints regarding its uses and capabilities. I recently went out on a limb, based on a friend's whole-hearted suggestion, and purchased a Macbook. After the initial day's growing pains, I fell in love with it. It included a 30-day trial of iWork as well as a Windows word processor. Not only was iWork more user-friendly, it ended up being cheaper to purchase. I'm completely satisfied with this product. My needs aren't great, but they're growing in terms of word-processing and presentation, and iWork fills that need very well.

Excellent.......2007-03-09

The fact that far more people use Powerpoint than Keynote is a travesty. Keynote is far superior is just about every aspect that I can think of. It is both easier to use and your can create much more impressive projects. It was extremely easy to learn how to make fairly sophisticated presentations. Keynote just has a WOW factor that cannot be denied.

The word processing program has some nice features, but seems to be kind of limited in its applications. For my uses, Microsoft Word still is far superior. However, the clear superiority of Keynote makes this product a must buy.

Electronics:

Electronics

Electronics