Michal Ždanský A recent major update to the iWork apps brought mixed reactions from users. Although Apple finally after years updated Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for Mac (and enabled them for all users get completely free), gave them a new, modern design and overall improved controls, much to the disappointment of office suite users some advanced features have disappeared, on which users were often dependent.
There have been theories that Apple may have removed the features to unify the Mac, iOS and web versions, adding them gradually later. After all, it was similar to Final Cut Pro X, where Apple greatly simplified the application and added advanced functions, due to the absence of which professionals began to leave the platform, over the course of months. Today, Apple responded to the criticism on its own support pages:
The iWork apps—Pages, Numbers, and Keynote—were released for Mac on October 22. These apps have been completely rewritten from the ground up to take full advantage of 64-bit architectures and support a unified format between OS X and iOS 7 versions, as well as iWork for iCloud beta.
These apps have a completely new design, a smart formatting panel and many new features, such as an easy way to share documents, styles for objects designed by Apple, interactive charts, new templates and new animations in Keynote.
As part of an application rewrite, some features from iWork '09 were not available on release day. We plan to bring back some of these features in upcoming updates and will be adding brand new features regularly.
We should expect new functions and the return of old functions in the course of the next six months. In fact, when updating to the new version, the old versions of the applications were preserved and users can find them in Applications > iWork '09 if they are missing any of the key features. Apple also released a list of features and improvements it plans to release over the next six months:
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Pages
- Customizable toolbar
- Vertical ruler
- Improved alignment guides
- Improved object placement
- Import cells with images
- Improved word counter
- Manage pages and sections from previews
Keynote
- Customizable toolbar
- Restore old transitions and assemblies
- Improvements in the presenter screen
- Improved AppleScript support
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Numbers
- Customizable toolbar
- Improvements to window zooming and positioning
- Sorting in multiple columns and selected range
- Autocomplete text in cells
- Page headers and footers
- Improved AppleScript support
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Unfortunately, Apple's software has been a big disappointment for me lately.
Since installing Mavericks, the wifi on my macbook air is getting angry, when I have to restart it in order to connect to my network.
The Mail advisory application does not work on my iMac again, where I see the wrong number of emails in folders, how many times I can't display new messages, the body of the email does not load at all, Safari freezes and today I came across that automatic text completion in cells does not work in Numbers , which gives me relatively basic functions…. so I hope these things will be fixed as soon as possible.
In Lion, mail also goes crazy. New emails won't load until I open it. And nothing will be shown in the sidebar until then. Safari has also frozen (once so far). And the wifi was also crazy before.
With the new Pages, I didn't understand why Apple did this. For example, working with styles is completely useless now. Previously, I had the option to click once in the sidebar and that was it. Now I have to click several times and I don't have a separate panel yet. And there's a lot of it. For example, in the work I was doing in iWork 09, I had a table of contents done, but when I started it in the new Pages, it completely fell apart (instead of 7 chapters and many sub-chapters, I only have 40 chapters). Can't Apple properly even make compatibility between two versions of the same program? (it worked in Word).
This program is not worth the money. Pages used to be comparable to Word. Now it doesn't even reach his ankles.
I can't seem to download Numbers and Keynote for free :-)
iWork is free only for all new users of Mac OSX and iOS 7, the old ones have to shell out a lot of money... but in truth it's worth it :) Much better than some open-software and again much cheaper than Office
I went back to 09 and complained to Apple about the purchase of the new version. They returned my money. I recommend it to anyone who paid for the new iWork.