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Grabbing live data from the Internet with Numbers

by Tom Gorham on 18 October 2010 in iWork
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Numbers doesn’t have the ability to pull live data from the Internet,but a short dabble in AppleScript can remedy that, as we explain… I wrote about Numbers’ role as a powerful accounting program in a recent issue (see MacUser, 10 September, p80). In truth though, it’s probably being used far more widely as a personal [...]

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10 reasons why you should start using iWork.com

by Tom Gorham on 18 May 2010 in iWork

iWork.com has been much maligned and mostly shunned since its launch last year, but despite its flaws, this free online service has a lot to offer. Let’s say that you’re asked to name Apple’s least-impressive software over the past 10 years. After considering the anaemic .Mac Backup application or pondering the disappointment of the Mac [...]

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To get the most out of Page’s mail merge, link it with Numbers

by Tom Gorham on 18 May 2010 in iWork

Mail merge was once best avoided and overshadowed by Microsoft’s effort, but it’s been improved and is now worth a second look. If MacUser’s readers were to put together a list of Pages 09′s can’t-live-without features, I’d be prepared to give long odds on the words ‘mail merge’ being mentioned. I may be guilty of [...]

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