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Apple launched its own suite of work to suit the market needs of an expensive arena. A Mac version of Microsoft office has been around for quite a few years now, but the void was that Mac did not make a version of its less expensive Works suite, so apple stepped in the shoes and completed the job and came up with the iWork.The predecessor to iWork had just two programs which were a combined word processor and a desktop publishing program called the pages and the presentation program called the keynote. iWork’08 brings an up gradation in both of these. iWork ’08 also now incorporates a program called numbers which has a multiple spreadsheet program.

The programs of Pages ’08 also gets a minor overhauling, it now has a significant bunch of new templates in the form of newsletters, reports and a document templates as well as some upgraded new graphic tools.  Keynote ’08 has had a more significant overhaul though, which consists of new templates for the purposes of presentation, new special and transition effects and some cool new animation which enables easy animation of text and graphics when making presentations.

Numbers is to an extent more like a desktop publishing program than a spreadsheet program, it in a way that is so synonymous with Apple take a completely different tangent to spreadsheet work, to that of typical work on a spreadsheet like Excel.

The work can be initiated by either opening a blank page or by the selection of one of the templates which have been designed specifically for the tasks like mortgage calculations or expense reports. Then all you need to do is draw a spreadsheet table and enlarge is according to your choice and need.

iWork is worth buying for anyone who needs to constantly do presentations on Mac. The upgraded Keynote is another feature worth spending the dough on, and now with the numbers thrown in for extra measure, it is an infallible companion. The only consideration is that it is not Vista compatible.

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