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.
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