Apple iWork 08 Family Pack

Pages '08 offers an intuitive way to create beautiful, media-rich documents using impressive features such as Writing and Layout modes, Change tracking, Contextual Format Bar, Automatic list formatting, Graphics tools and templates. Pages '08 supports industry-standard formats to easily open documents from other word processing applications that were created on a Mac or a PC.
Amaze your audience with cinema-quality presentations using Keynote '08 and its new features Text effects & transitions, Action Builds, Instant Alpha, Voice-over Recording, Smart Builds and Apple-designed Themes.
Numbers '08 does everything from setting up your family budget to completing a lab report using Intelligent Tables, Interactive Print View, Flexible Canvas, Import & Export Excel, Charts, Images, Text Labels and Customizable Templates. Automatic list formatting - List and format on the fly New Templates - Use more than 80 new templates Keynotes '08 - Text effects & transitions - Captivate viewers with elegant transitions Action Builds - Move objects along a path Instant Alpha - Change backgrounds with simple click & drag Smart Builds - Add photos with sophisticated animations Apple-designed Themes - 9 themes for creating a professional presentation Numbers '08 - Intelligent Tables - Create multiple resizable tables Interactive Print View - Scale and arrange documents Flexible Canvas - Move objects wherever you like with comments, photos and graphics Import & Export Excel - Share spreadsheets with Microsoft Office Charts, Images, Text Labels - Add 2D & 3D charts, photos or a map Customizable Templates - For Home, School and Business System Requirements - Macintosh computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5 or PowerPC G4 (500MHz or faster) processor, 512MB RAM, 32MB video memory, Mac OS X Version 10.4.10 or later, QuickTime 7.2 or later, iLife '08 recommended, 1GB free space and DVD drive re

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars A great suite of apps….almost
I converted to the iWork suite a couple of years ago, and this update is a nice improvement.

I use Keynote to do presentations constantly; presentations are easy to create and edit, allowing the user to define multiple "master" slides to control the design (PowerPoint, on the other hand, only allows the user 2 masters - the title slide and a bulleted text slide). The text editing options are very flexible and the presentation a snap. There's no way I would go back to PowerPoint or OpenOffice after using Keynote — does save to .ppt if necessary, though.

Pages is a nice design app - a bit over featured for simple form letters (TextEdit is simpler to use and free with the Mac OS), but works very well when dealing with graphics and text. I've used Pages to design large posters and longer documents with figures and have been very happy with the results. The only complaints I have are table editing (slow and cumbersome still :() and the default font (Helvetica. I can change it, but it's not that simple). Converts easily to .doc and .pdf if you need to share your results with others.

Numbers (the new addition for '08) is not quite enough to replace Excel…but I expect it will be in the next revision or so. It just doesn't have the calculation/analysis options (creation of histograms, for example) that Excel does. The view options and charts are a bit more flexible than Excel, so this app shows promise - its just not there yet. Fine for balancing checkbooks or creating lists, but not quite for data analysis.

This is a good start — and it will keep MS Office off of my Mac, with the exception of Excel. Word and PowerPoint are no longer necessary. Pages and Keynote alone are worth the cost…the only reason this is 4 stars instead of 5 is the limited features in Numbers.

5 Stars Great Suite of Software
Warning: I'm a Mac fanboy.

This another great installment of this wonderful software. My wife is a physician and does a lot of public speaking and Key Note always gets noticed. Presentations done using Key Note stand out. Powerpoint can not hold a candle to it, and if your used to using PP don't worry the transition will be painless. The controls are intuitive, and you can import your PP presentations to Key Note and it will convert them for you.

Pages in this version is moving toward being a full fledged replacement of MS Word. Very few users will find Pages lacking, it's not bloated like Word, it just what it supposed to do, help you communicate.

With the addition of numbers, most Mac users can dump MS Office because now iWork is a complete package that can work in all but really large offices. Projects can be exported or saved as MS documents, and you could keep any of the open source office solutions for occasional use.

I noticed a couple of one star reviews, be sure to read those. They're just former windows people who expect a lot for nothing. The updated to iWork, and iLife aren't free, or marked down but they are reasonably priced. And why they would complain about 80 to 100 dollars is beyond me. And have they noticed there's no registration keys, Apple respects its users, unlike Mr. Softy.

5 Stars Excellent product! Keeps getting better!
iWork 2008 finally won me completely over from Mac Office 2004. I use it for marketing, billing, and many of my financial records for a small-business. (I've even put aside InDesign after many years)

5 Stars iWorks 08
My order was promptly processes and shipped. I was very pleased with the service.

The iWorks 08 product is a great suite of programs.

4 Stars Amazing Upgrade
Well, I have the first iteration of iWork and I must say that I am extremely pleased that I upgraded. Pages is vastly improved and I love fooling around in Numbers. If you purchased iWork 06, I am not sure if this is a worthy upgrade. If you purchased the original iWork and did not upgrade to 06, this is definitely worth it. Besides, I got the Family Pack with 5 installs for a great price here on Amazon. Go for it, you won't regret it!!!

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