iWork '09 - 2024 report by Whydis

iWork '09

Product Description iWork ’09, Apple’s office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way. Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It allows yo...

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Template

(11 reviews)
Suite

(11 reviews)
Ship

(7 reviews)
Word

(16 reviews)
User

(16 reviews)
Price

(23 reviews)
Program

(33 reviews)
Version

(29 reviews)
Office

(22 reviews)
Software

(43 reviews)
Pages

(24 reviews)
Iwork

(29 reviews)
Review

(9 reviews)
File

(6 reviews)

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Reviews around template (5.00 of 5)

  • The templates are easy to use, and the layouts beautiful.
  • Choosing templates in all three programs is now a bit easier with the improved template chooser
  • All three programs include more of Apple's slick templates, integrate with each other better and sport useful new features
  • Pages has SO many templates and Numbers is way better than Excel lol, I LOVE it.
  • You just get essentially Power Point, Excel and Word, missing a few features in each with a few better templates in my mind.
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Reviews around suite (5.00 of 5)

  • The software itself is just as powerful as any Microsoft Office Suite and is much more user friendly
  • This suite is so user friendly, my clients were able to use it without asking me dozens of questions
  • What more can yo say, it is a great office suite even at full retail, but at the price Amazon has it for it is a steal
  • Highly recommended for Vista-weary PC users and Mac loyalists looking for a solid business suite.
  • I highly recommend this application suite to anyone looking to make a cost effective switch from MS Office and also gain some great new tools and user functionality in the process.
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Reviews around ship (5.00 of 5)

  • Love this program, works great, fast shipping, thank you!
  • It is around $69 with free shipping when bought from Apple and if you prefer to go into an Apple store show them your Gov ID and the price will also be around $69
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Reviews around word (4.63 of 5)

  • I like keynote more than power point, but Word is better than pages
  • Keynote makes it easy to produce high quality, professional presentations and Pages is a good word processor.
  • The new Pages now easily exports a document in doc, txt or pdf format, and does a remarkably lifelike transformation of even highly complex Word documents, tables, lists, or legal briefs with a mere double-click or drag-and drop
  • Depending on what you need, you could like either Word or Pages better, I personally prefer pages because of all the templates
  • I've converted old Word and Excel documents to Pages and Numbers but haven't manipulated them enough to rate iWork programs any better or superior.
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Reviews around user (4.61 of 5)

  • but it seems to be pretty user friendly like most Apple products.
  • Apple, iWork allows the user to be much more creative!!!
  • but I can now report that all of the programs, Pages, numbers and Keynote are very user friendly and powerful
  • It's quite user friendly logic - most everything is readily available in the inspector, media, colors & font drop downs
  • Highly recommended for Vista-weary PC users and Mac loyalists looking for a solid business suite.
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Reviews around price (4.47 of 5)

  • I have an older Mac-mini and could not download the "latest and greatest" Works version, but this has all the right stuff for a great price.
  • The price on Amazon is much cheaper than buying directly from Apple.
  • I appreciate finding this older version of iWork online at a great price
  • Overall for general everyday use, this software is going to work out just fine, and the price is easy to swallow
  • I have run into no problems user-wise or compatibility-wise.great product at a better price, way to go apple/amazon
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Reviews around program (4.29 of 5)

  • This is a good program for working on a Mac, it's compatible with Office for Windows documents
  • This is the most stubborn, terrible, clunky, unintuitive, terrible, frustrating program I have ever had the misfortune of working with
  • I love the iWork program, it is wonderful because, as a nursing student in a college that is still microsoft controlled, I no longer have to use microsoft for mac which had it's own set of microsoft problems.
  • As before, Numbers is an easy to use and attractive program for normal people
  • If you are in need of a comprehensive and user-friendly program, then I do not recommend iWork
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Reviews around version (4.02 of 5)

  • I didn't think the prior version of iWork was so great.
  • The new version of Pages (free for MAC users) is far inferior than the old 09 version
  • I love this Mac software and this version of Pages is the best
  • Also had problems accessing the '09 version of Pages as the App Store automatically updated it to the latest (and by all accounts inferior) 2013 version.
  • iWork is a great product and this is the best version, I love the quality of the provided templates
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Reviews around office (3.86 of 5)

  • This was a cheap way of getting all three of the office products that work really well on my machine.
  • After being forced into taking a Microsoft Office 2010 class for college as a senior, I found the Mac equivalent (Office 2011) to be unstable and frustrating to use.
  • It is not as powerful as MS Office but it serves my needs quite well.
  • The software itself is just as powerful as any Microsoft Office Suite and is much more user friendly
  • They might not be quite as powerful as their Office counterparts, but for 99% of users, they should be more than enough
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Reviews around software (3.72 of 5)

  • A better software package cannot be found for this price
  • I can not say this is a bad software program, but what makes it bad is that its not really compatible with anything else
  • I love this Mac software and this version of Pages is the best
  • I just picked up a 2006 iMac and wanted to try out iMovie and this was the cheapest and best rated iWork software for my needs.
  • However, transitions are not as great as Office 2013, but for Mac options they are the best choice!In the end this software is great and easy to use, I think if you are a real power user you will probably want both (MS Office and iWork), but for most users iWork will have that Mac feel and work really well.
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Reviews around pages (3.61 of 5)

  • I started composing in Scrivener, but I still have to export the file into a .doc or .rtf, and Pages ends up corrupting it somehow anyway.
  • Pages freezes constantly when scrolling multiple page documents
  • When working with long documents that have a lot of subheadings, Pages becomes clumsy to use
  • I have heard that Pages 09 is better than the 2015 version
  • When working with long documents that have a lot of subheadings, Pages becomes clumsy to use
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Reviews around iwork (3.53 of 5)

  • iWork is more user friendly than the Microsoft counterparts.
  • (MS Office doesn't).I recommend iWork for students, teachers and anyone who wants to make their
  • iWork is much like Microsoft Office except without the huge price tag
  • I was familiar with iWork '08 and upgraded to El Capitan, which does not support iWork '08, hence the need for iWork '09.
  • For all I know, the iWork speadsheet and presentation components work fine.
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Reviews around review (2.33 of 5)

  • Bought this program having never have used it, but it got such good reviews
  • Still, it has been an exercise in frustration for me to the degree that in spite of very bad reviews of Office for Mac and general not good feelings about Microsoft, I have and am considering moving to Office.
  • I was already using Microsoft and was researching their newer version, but kept seeing glowing reviews of iWork
  • I read the reviews and hoped for the best since most reviews were so positive
  • I take my frustration out here as Apple has disallowed any reviews of its new applications on the Apple Website.
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Reviews around file (1.41 of 5)

  • Keynote should be a stand alone, independent presentation and not reliant on external media links...if you sneeze, move one file, rename, it crashes....and you lose important, randomly and it reshuffles data images and videos with the wrong text....crashes and crashes
  • Doc files seem to work okay, but I've had some trouble with xls files.
  • If you distain the latest versions of software that Mac is supplying with new computers...better buy this one whilst you can find it - the new Mac software will not open older file versions saved in this format - the work arounds to open iWork '09 files is tedious and not worth the effort
  • By "poor" I mean that Pages simply ignores text entry fields in .doc files
  • I had no problems opening/converting files from Office, so compatibility exceeded my expectations.
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More about iWork '09

  • Product Description iWork ’09, Apple’s office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way
  • Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application
  • It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works
  • Numbers, with its' great-looking templates, easy-to-create formulas, and dynamic tables and charts, gives you simple ways to make sense of your data
  • Use Keynote to create your presentations, and you’ll be a hard act to follow
  • Its' powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow
  • Packed with over 250 Apple-designed themes and templates—including 60 new designs overall—iWork lets you create projects that look polished from the first page or slide
  • And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so it’s easy to share your work. Amazon.com iWork, Apple's office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way
  • Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application
  • It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works
  • Numbers, with its great-looking templates, easy-to-create formulas, and dynamic tables and charts, gives you simple ways to make sense of your data
  • Use Keynote to create your presentations, and you'll be a hard act to follow
  • Its powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow
  • Packed with over 250 Apple-designed themes and templates—including 60 new designs overall—iWork lets you create projects that look polished from the first page or slide
  • And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so it's easy to share your work
  • Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
  • The Mac way
  • Pages '09 Word processing and then some
  • Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application
  • It starts with an enhanced Template Chooser that lets you skim more than 180 Apple-designed templates
  • You can easily create stunning documents, from a simple letter to a professionally polished resume to a multipage newsletter and more
  • Or start with a blank page and let your words and creativity take their own course
  • Reports, resumes, brochures, newsletters, invitations—whatever you write, Pages puts powerful tools at your fingertips
  • So you can create beautiful, media-rich documents in minutes
  • New Features Choose from 40 new Apple-designed templates Focus on your writing in full-screen view Organize your ideas with dynamic outlines Customize your documents using mail merge Insert equations with MathType 6 (sold separately) Create bibliographies with EndNote X2 (sold separately) Numbers '09 Powerful and compelling spreadsheets
  • Plan a wedding
  • Save for retirement
  • Track your workouts
  • Keep a baby journal
  • Spreadsheets can help you organize and plan, and great-looking, Apple-designed templates will help you get started
  • Choose from 30 templates to use for home, work, and school
  • Tables are already made
  • Formulas have been figured out
  • Fonts are in place
  • They're all ready to go
  • Just find something you like and make it your own
  • If you're starting with a blank sheet, that's easy, too
  • Spreadsheets are built on a flexible, free-form canvas
  • So you can move tables, charts, graphics, and text anywhere you want on the page
  • Effortlessly create formulas using an intuitive browser with more than 250 functions
  • Add interactive controls such as sliders, steppers, and checkboxes that let you play "what if" in real time
  • Scale your document with a drag of the mouse to create the perfect printout using the interactive print view
  • You can even add photos, movies, and music to your spreadsheet with just a few clicks
  • New Features Build powerful formulas with ease Perform calculations using over 250 functions Organize your data instantly into table categories Check your calculations at a glance with Formula List view Create 2-axis charts and mixed charts Choose from 12 new Apple-designed templates Keynote '09 Cinema-quality presentations for everyone
  • Even if you've never used Keynote before, you'll find creating a presentation surprisingly simple
  • An enhanced Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of 44 Apple-designed themes
  • Once you've chosen the perfect canvas for your presentation, simply substitute placeholder text and graphics with your own words and images
  • Easy-to-use tools let you add elements such as tables, charts, shapes, photos, and videos to slides
  • Finish off your masterpiece with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team
  • With Keynote, you have all the tools you need to make an amazing presentation amazingly simple
  • New Features Easily create sophisticated animations with Magic Move Add dramatic text transitions using new visual effects Visualize your data with new 3D charts and chart animations Dramatically reduce file size without compromising quality Create dynamic flowcharts and diagrams with connection lines Choose from eight new Apple-designed themes