“Apple released updates to its iWork suite for macOS today,” Michael Potuck reports for 9to5Mac.
“The new versions include a new library of 500 professionally drawn shapes, more efficient auto-correction and text replacement options, added stock and currency features, improved language support, and more,” Potuck reports.
Potuck reports, “Today’s release follows a stability and performance improvement release last April.”
Congratulations to my team and everyone for a great new iWork release! https://t.co/JEPB94ML8A
— Jiva DeVoe (@JivaDeVoe) June 13, 2017
Full article with release notes for each new version here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple continues their strong efforts on iWork!
Apple’s iWork easily does everything we need (of course, we’re all-Apple here, so iWork offers seamless continuity across all of our devices).
SEE ALSO:
Apple updates iWork’s Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for macOS and iOS – April 25, 2017
Apple makes iMovie, GarageBand, and iWork apps for Mac and iOS devices free for all users – April 18, 2017
Apple iWork vs. Microsoft Office vs. Google G Suite: Your iPad can largely function like a laptop – February 23, 2017
That’s nice, useless, but nice.
That’s what she said (to you).
Hi Kolache… I don’t know how you’ve missed this… and you seem to not be seeing my helpful posts… there are other operating systems out there with other applications. I’m sure you can find something more useful to you.
Yes Kolache please let us ride you out of MacTown on a rail to what must be Redmond Paradise. A little tar and feathering should suit you too if you didn’t already lead a wretched existence.
Yeah, but did they fix the bug that was causing iWork files stored on iCloud to be unrecognized? Until this is fixed, I cannot risk having an important document being unrecognized and unaccessible.
(Yes, escalated to Tier 3 support.)
iWork bugs never affect me ’cause I never user iWork. Until iWork can replace Office would I consider iWork.
If you are talking about Word, you should make a switch. If you are talking about PowerPoint, you should at least give it a second look. If you are talking about Excel – enjoy working in a TinyLimp world. Microsoft unfortunately totally rules with Excel.
Excellent critique and spot on. I agree with your synoptic reviews of three programs.
Numbers is a triple AAA team compared to pro Excel. Sum up a major deficiency in the past in two words — pivot tables.
That said, I have not kicked the tires on the new suite …
I use Pages, Keynote, and LibreOffice. I used Word through the 90s, when what’s his name was bragging about crippling the Mac version. I would get three pictures in a report and it would go nuts. Pages doesn’t do that.
I got tired of paying the MS Excel tax and picked up LibreOffice when Numbers was still trying to find the bathroom. Since it is free and will read and write Excel files, that is a no brainer. I do extremely complicated, multipage spreadsheets and no formular bar in Excel is ridiculous! I have done 7th order polynomial curve fits and 6 sheet interactive calcs.
Keynote was better than PP on day one.
… “replace” as in “do everything Office does”? Or do you mean “does everything _I_ need it to do”? If the former, you must be one serious feature-fiend. If the latter, it may well do that already. Since you never USE it, you will never KNOW! And you will continue to tithe to Redmond, renting software few people truly need.
Woohoo! Linked text boxes are back! At last I can stop using Pages ’09.
Will it import ’09 files and leave the links intact?
This is the best thing. Thank You, Thank YOU!
Revised MDN take:
“Apple continues their piecemeal efforts to return iWork to its past functionality!”
The only iWork update that get me to use it more is the ability to save Pages Docs directly in .docx format without having to export and make a separate copy, so that I can share docs with 95% of the computing world, view them in Chrome, etc.
Until then no deal for docs.
(I use numbers for the simple spreadsheets and tables I make and Keynote for the few presentations I do and have always liked it.)
Would love to see Apple create a truly robust, cross-platform office suite that could compete with MS Office. Web apps are neat, but they lack features and don’t give businesses the control they want. Because it’s not available natively on alternative OSs, iWork has zero chance of driving meaningful and profitable Mac adoption in the enterprise… I realize Apple has to prioritize its project investments, but, other than mobile, it’s missing out on business IT dollars.
Amen pages an any medium document centric demand business cannot rely on apples efforts. We had better in os 7 on claris!
Yeah, but the Calendar and Contacts apps have sucked bad for years. C’mon guys, how about some basic CRM?
Those aren’t even on my dock…..
… NOT part of the iWorks package.
iWorks consists of Pages (text editing and formatting), Numbers (spreadsheet), and Keynote (if you need presentation-ware). Calendar, Mail, Safari, Contacts, and Dictionary are NOT part of that package.
and now…. stocks don’t update intraday anymore, nice move Apple. Take something useful and kill it, well done. Previous Close, which was already there has now replaced Current Price, what a bone headed move!
As we have witnessed for years now with FCP, Pages and other apps — Apple wipes clean useful features we have incorporated into our workflows. And adds other features in its place, or not, that who the hell asked for?
Then after a firestorm they silently slip them back in, sheesh.
I have lots of nits with navigation changes in iOS. This one irks my veracious reading habits. When on a website in Safari the top window bar used to list the FULL URL. Now, just the name of the website appears, not the story URL.
One could click and hold the field for “Select All” and then paste into e-mail, text, Notes, etc. Two step elegance. With that handy feature removed now you have to hit SHARE icon, address, send, open, copy, and then finally paste.
Elegance removed and wasting more time, battery and data … 😑