Apple introduced iWork ’09, an Office Suite similar in the lines to Microsoft Office and as any PC user would love to hear, yes, there is compatibility with Microsoft Office saved documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Apple iWork offers the feature to save your work done on a Mac to the conventional Microsoft format files such as Doc, Xls, Ppt , RTF, PDF and more.
If someone sends you a Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file, you can open it in iWork. And it’s easy to make Microsoft Office documents look great, thanks to the powerful graphics and formatting tools in iWork. Numbers also opens vCards, Open Financial Exchange files, and comma-separated-value and tab-delimited files. Pages also opens Rich Text Format (RTF) documents.
Okkkk, so what more does iWork offer us?
iWork provides the features similar to Microsoft Office and lets you create
1. iWork-Pages ’09
Creating multitude of styled documents are quite easy in iWork’s Pages. Check out the other features of Pages here.
2. iWork – Numbers ’09: Now work on your spread sheets with more efficiency and control.
Writing formulas. Organizing data. Creating charts. With new features that are easy to use, anyone can be good with numbers.
3. iWork – Keynote
New animations and themes. Exciting transitions and effects. Even a way to use your iPhone or iPod touch as a remote. It’s a shame you can’t be in the audience.
Watch the awesome animations provided by Keynote here.
Watch iWork in Action. It’s amazing. Now you can download free trial from Apple’s site here.
If you love it, you would definitely, you can purchase a full version for $79 and family pack for $99.
