iWork ’06 was recently introduced by Apple. “By leveraging the power of Mac OS X and seamlessly integrating photos, movies and music from iLife, iWork ’06 brings productivity software to life,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s Vice President of Applications Marketing. “With great new features in both Pages and Keynote, iWork ’06 offers even more ways to create, present and publish professional-looking documents and presentations.” Tables with spreadsheet-like calculations can be inserted within any document or presentation giving users the ability to add, multiply or average numbers in rows or columns. Users can also create stunning threedimensional charts. iWork ’06 also adds the ability to include reviewer’s comments to slides and documents without affecting the layout. The easiest way to create great looking documents from simple letters and flyers to professional quality newsletters and brochures. It also features, mail merge with Mac OS X Address Book, making it easy to personalize documents with predefined fields within templates and quickly drag and drop individual contacts into documents. Two dozen new templates for newsletters, flyers, posters, school reports, scrapbooks, brochures, business proposals and invoices to give users a head start in creating custom documents. Keynote 3 offers more ways to create cinema-quality presentations and interactive slideshows with new features designed to bring those presentations to life. Keynote 3 features new cinematic transitions including vertical or horizontal blinds, revolving door, swoosh and more. A new Light Table view mode makes it easy to view an entire presentation at-aglance and reorganize slides using drag and drop while flexible build animations provide more control of bullet lists, tables and charts including unique timing and sequence of individual bullets, rows, columns or series. iWork ’06 supports a wide range of industry standard file formats including Microsoft PowerPoint and PDF. Keynote 3 imports and exports PowerPoint files and exports presentations to QuickTime, Macromedia Flash, HL and iLife. Pages 2 imports and exports Microsoft Word, RTF, HL and plain text files. Both Keynote 3 and Pages 2 export to PDF and import associated AppleWorks files. ■
