“iWork ’08 offers a sweet office suite”

[Newsbot]

“Benefiting from Apple’s tireless design and integration efforts, iWork ‘08 gives users an easy, intuitive interface, beautiful templates and tight integration with Mac OS X and iLife,” reports Paul Vaughn (San Antonio Express News). He praises numerous new features in both Pages ’08—which he calls “a very capable word-processing program, a quite viable alternative to Microsoft Word”—and Keynote ’08: “Apple keeps making it better.” And Numbers ’08, Vaughn says “is designed intelligently from the ground up.” Comparing it favorably to Excel, he concludes, Numbers seems “brilliantly elegant.”

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[Egidio]

I've been playing with iWork for almost a month now. I like a lot of things about it, but can't quite make the complete switch. I'm so used to Excel keyboard shortcuts that I can't believe Numbers does not have most of those. Well, it's only a first version for Numbers. It is very promising, though. Of course the best thing about it is that it opens documents in the new Office version for Windows -- something that even Windows users can't do with old versions of Office.