Apple adds new sharing feature to iWork.com; debuts redesign for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

Apple Store USAApple’s iWork.com makes it easy to share your document with large groups, websites, and social networks by creating a public link. Anyone with the public link can see your document in a clean, high resolution view without comments or document notes.

It’s easy to create a public link for a document you’ve shared on iWork.com. Just open your document and select Public in the Document Info pane. Click Show Public URL and copy the link so you can paste it in an email or post it on a website. iWork.com displays the number of views your publicly shared documents receive so you can easily track how often they are viewed.

If you decide to remove public access to your document, just turn off the public link in the Document Info pane.

In addition, now you can easily access your documents on-the-go by using iWork.com’s redesigned Sign In and Shared Documents pages for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

The new interface is optimized for scrolling with your fingertips, and makes it easy to find your documents faster. You can see a high resolution view of your document right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and even download it to edit with Keynote, Pages, or Numbers on your iPad.

Visit www.iwork.com using Safari on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to access and view your shared documents.

29 Comments

  1. iWork.com just gets better and better. It’s elegant and easy to use for users. The commenting system works to keep the document from getting cluttered with edits. Imaging having to deal with 10 people editing a freaking document every freaking minute online.

  2. Last I looked (a week or so ago) iWork.com was in Beta, though it didn’t act it. It acted more like high-quality shareware! High on the quality, a bit light on the features. But, then, it is (still) free! ! !
    So, every week or so I share a Numbers document with a buddy who uses Windows and we do just fine. Thank you, Apple.

  3. Well, iWork is very nice given that it is free, but sometime this year it REALLY needs an upgrade that allows for actual editing while online. Oh, and it has to be usable Windows Explorer, despte the fact that it sucks! That doesn’t mean Apple has to give them everything–only iWork users would be able to post documents. But it would be INCREDIBLY valuable to any Mac-based business user who wants to get rid of M$ Office and standardize on iWork. Collaboration on documents is THE main obstacle. Right now that is only practical to do with almost entirely text-base documents, as other documents often lose formatting during export/import. (Numbers documents are NEVER look the same when exported.) Many, many documents in business can’t be text-only. If Apple could solve this issue, even if only basic editing were possible, iWork would quicly become the dominant prodctivity suite on Macs. Windows users would also get to salivate over its slick interface, which they would have to buy a Mac to fully experience.

  4. By the way, if Apple added the collaboratve editing functionality I mention above, they could probably charge $ for it. Better yet, the extra functionality could be included with MobilMe. Everyone who purchases iWork gets the current “basic” sharing, but those wth MobileMe get a little extra.

  5. “Can’t log in”

    First you have to share a document from an iWork app.

    Then you receive an email verifying your address.

    Click on the link, then your Apple ID log in works.

    Works fine using the iWork demo.

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