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iWork Apps for macOS Sierra Updated With Real-Time Collaboration

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With the release of macOS Sierra today, Apple also updated its line of iWork apps, including Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. The new update for each app introduces the same real-time collaboration feature, in beta form, brought to the iOS versions of each app last week.

Using real-time collaboration, users are able to edit one document in any iWork app simultaneously, no matter if they're using a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iCloud.com. Within Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, live updates of each user's cursor and a list of document editors keep everyone up-to-date on the progress of any document, spreadsheet, or presentation.

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What's New in Version 6.0
- Real-time collaboration (feature in beta)
- Edit a document with others at the same time in Pages on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iCloud.com
- Share your document publicly or with specific people
- See who else is in a document
- See participants' cursors as they're editing

- Open and edit Pages '05 documents
- Use tabs to work with multiple documents in one window
- Wide color gamut image support

In Keynote, there's a new "Keynote Live" feature that lets users present a slideshow that anyone can follow from a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iCloud.com. Pages and Keynote also both feature support for opening and editing Pages and Keynote '05 documents.

Apple's line of iWork apps are free to users who have recently purchased a new Mac or iOS device. Otherwise, each iWork app for Mac is available for $19.99 while each iWork app for iOS is available for $9.99.

Pages for macOS [Direct Link]
Keynote for macOS [Direct Link]
Numbers for macOS [Direct Link]

Tag: iWork
Related Forum: macOS Sierra

Top Rated Comments

decimortis Avatar
130 months ago
So now the three guys who use it can all collaborate.

I KID. I KID. Put the flamethrowers down.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
garirry Avatar
130 months ago
Update allowing for older files to start being compatible? By APPLE? THIS IS A MIRACLE! :P
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Mlrollin91 Avatar
130 months ago
Well I just figured out why I can't update. These all require Sierra. Kind of annoying.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
AllergyDoc Avatar
130 months ago
And updated with mirror pages and text flow from box to box and mail merge and...

... and then I woke up.

Still, I use Pages almost daily.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
130 months ago
Hey this works with ElCap too, it got activated the other day and I was running it fine. Maybe a bit overdue but it's a great feature. Happily able to drop google docs now :D
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
130 months ago
Pivot Tables
I need them
not colored labels
not even in a horse stable
I need Pivot tables

or something like a table that pivot like a multi dimensional cube.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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