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Apple Updates Keynote, Pages and Numbers for iPad


Apple has issued version updates to their iPad productivity apps Keynote, Numbers, and Pages. The updates offer a number of bug fixes and improvements but also adds a number of new features. The new features are listed here:

Keynote
- Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format.
- Copy presentations between Keynote and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
- Support for audio in builds when importing Keynote '09 presentations.
- Ability to group and ungroup objects.
- Add animated builds to grouped objects.
- Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations.
- Revolving Door, Swoosh and Wipe slide transition animations.

Numbers
- Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel (.XLS) format.
- Copy spreadsheets between Numbers and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
- Ability to group and ungroup objects.
- Open CSV files from Mail and other apps.

Pages
- Copy documents between Pages and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
- Option to display the word count for your document.
- Support for opening .txt files from Mail.
- Ability to group and ungroup objects.
- Import and export existing footnotes, endnotes, sections and tables of contents.
- Import and export Pages '09 tables with image background fills in cells.

Each app is priced at $9.99 and is iPad-only.

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22 months ago
The export to xls is all I needed. Thanks Apple iWork team
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22 months ago
Now you can actually incorporate iWork for iPad into a logical workflow. No more of this ridiculous "e-mail docs to yourself to get them on/off the iPad" stuff.
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22 months ago
Not sure i get it.

you can export it to xls format.. but how do you get it off the ipad?
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22 months ago

Now you can actually incorporate iWork for iPad into a logical workflow. No more of this ridiculous "e-mail docs to yourself to get them on/off the iPad" stuff.


Now I might be buying some for my sales staff...
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22 months ago
Still no option to remotely control presentations over wifi or bluetooth?

I would be completely okay with it if the iPad couldn't even create or edit presentations, so long as it could excel at giving them. Guess it's still just a small-group sort of thing, since gripping the podium is out of the question.

And ya, ya, I know. Buy a mac. Already done.
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22 months ago

Not sure i get it.

you can export it to xls format.. but how do you get it off the ipad?


Email
iTunes Document Sharing
iWork.com
MobileMe iDisk
WebDAV Server
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22 months ago
Very useful. Hope the MobileMe integration is well done.
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22 months ago
I guess this is why we haven't seen the expected iWork '11 update (for Macs). Apple seems to have put all their software engineers on iOS projects. Same for iLife '11. And Bento 4 (Filemaker just released new mobile app upgrades).
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22 months ago
Man, I was totally hoping that a better outlining tool would be implemented. It sucks how one can't tab (when using an external keyboard) to get bullets to indent. Apple, get on this!
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22 months ago
Great for presentations:

7-inch iPad mini. Pocketable. Wow!!!
Bluetooth remote control.
True compatibility with Apple iWork to/from Mac.
True compatibility with Microsoft Office to/from Mac.
Last but not least, USB or card slot to get files in/from iPad!!!

When?
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