iWork 2005

RGrphc2

RGrphc2

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Okay, iWork is the successor to AppleWorks. Mainly to compete w/ M$ Office. Apple pretty much has replaced Office in their products.

iWork's Pages replaces Word, Mail replaces Entourage, and Keynote replaces Powerpoint.

What replaces excel in Apple's Suite?
 
iWork was the one thing I was really looking forward to and the only disappointment. I'll have to wait until they get 'cells' or whatever they decide to call their spreadsheet application organised.
Now waiting for the next show :)
Never mind, NeoOffice/J is working well.
 
Pengu: not sure.
RGrphc2: From iWork web site:
Tables and Charts
Pick a template, and each table and chart you create will automatically match the font, color and design. Pages lets you choose from six different types of charts — they’re accessible via a pull-down menu in the Chart Inspector and offers complete control over formatting.

So you should be able to do a spreadsheet. There is a Chart Data Editor which should allow plain charts.
 
Re: spreadsheets..

Yeah, but Cheryl, I think that is more aimed for formatting data in a table, the way you would in Word, or for putting small amounts of data into a calculation for a report or whatever..

I think they still need a spreadsheet app. (Pages.. and.. Cells?.. Sheets?) to do all the funky math-type stuff.
 
Do you's rekon iwork is better than office ? Because i will be purchasing office soon, but im not really happy on the way it performed on my mac (the test drive version) so i might get iwork instead.
 
well price alone would make me try iwork before office. i am getting iwork and ilife at Edu pricing.. from Nextbyte salesman:
Educ price on Life 05 is $89
And iwork is $79
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Don't forget, that's $AUD. retail is $119 each.
 
They still seem a little too different to me to be asking if one could replace the other... iWork doesn't include powerful spreadsheet software like Office does... plus, we'll have to see how good the Microsoft Word compatibility is with Pages.
 
Has anyone noticed the system requirements for iWorks? Minimum, I think, is a G4 at 500 MHz. Alas I have a G4 at 400 MHz but ample memory. Should I be worry? Any first generation TiBook 400ers out there?
 
I'm gettin office instead, i think i will prefer it better. However pages looks very very good, probly even better than ms publisher, which really does suck. I really want to get ilife 05 though, however only for garageband. I am a piano player so getting the next version of garageband would really help mainly the music notation.
 
The keynote alone should be worth the price. I see Pages as a complement to Word, much like textedit is now.
 
I'll be getting it almost without question.

I never really use spreadsheets, and all of my databases are hosted on Notes/Domino servers anyway. In fact, the only real "work" I do on my computer is documents and presentations, so this is great.

Pity I've already bought a legitimate copy of MS-Office. For the same price I could get a Mac Mini with iLife 05 and iWork as well!

I've used Keynote for a year now, and I can honestly say it has changed the way all of my presentations have been done. There is a "Game Show" template floating around somewhere that is really good for staff training days.

Its great to see the same concept brought across to documents with Pages, as whipping up a custom template would be the best imaginable way to do a regular newsletter.
 
The formatting in Pages looks great. No more fighting with Word's auto formatting and having Word argue with you about where you want things to go on the page.
 
I may be wrong, since the pages is not out. I don't think it is marketed to replace Office. I will have to see it at the Apple Store before I make that decision. Although the keynote demo, and basic information on the web site indicate it looks good.
 
Pages is based on an older NeXT-era application, IIRC the corresponding spreadsheet app would be the (then revolutionary) Improv.

Improv was so popular that it became one of the few killer apps on the NeXT platform, and machines started showing up in financial officies in the thousands.
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(From Wikipedia)
 
Does it support equation edition ? I do math and physics editions, and the only good solution is FrameMaker... too expensive (Word is not stable).

iWork is not fighting against Office. It has no database and no spreadsheet (both were available in AppleWorks). It is providing a solution for people who do not need the power of Office, but need to build written documents or presentations.

iWork + iLife + Adobe does a lot of work !
 
PowerMac said:
I don't think it is marketed to replace Office.
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No. Its a completely different set of tools that operate in a completely different way. Plus, the Mac Mini part of the Apple site is clearly plugging MS-Office as one of the must-have accessories for PC switchers.

iWork is not intended to be equivalent to MS-Office. It functions in a very different way. Keynote is not PowerPoint, Pages is not MS-Word, and a motorcycle is not a truck. For much the same reason, its pretty much impossible to make value comparisons between them, as such comparisons become meaningless.
 
why doesnt MS port the Jet DB Engine to Mac? or even Access? Ive used File Maker Pro and Access and i have to say that Access is far better than FMP. Plus FMP is not compatable with MS access files ( it just doent work !)
 
Well, sqlite is going to be used for the search feature in Tiger, and it's public domain software (not BSD/GPL licensed, which would mean some restrictions Apple might not like, but completely public domain), with lots & lots of projects using it. The database format and manipulation software are right there.

Sqlite gives you a similar sort of feature set as Access - simple SQL databases in individual files (no server component, just file manipulation); most but not all SQL-97 feature set. That of course doesn't include a GUI - that would be up to others to build.

There are some out there - if you do a google search for "sqlite gui" you can see that they're all currently pretty clunky. But, that's what Apple is great at.

So, if Apple did decide to try to fill out their office suite with a DBMS and spreadsheet, I'm going to guess that the DB side will use sqlite for the file format and manipulation. Which would be very cool, because sqlite really is an excellent database tool - the performance is great, it's pretty mature...
 
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