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An outline of grievances with Pages’ planning tool

by Tom Gorham on 6 September 2010 in iWork
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Pages now has an outlining feature, which is fantastic news, but you shouldn’t ditch your old outlining tools just yet, as it has a couple of flaws… Much of the annoyance value of a saying such as ‘fail to plan, plan to fail’ probably comes from the fact that, as with all similarly irritating aphorisms, [...]

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Apple adds iBooks export to Pages

by Simon Aughton on 27 August 2010 in News
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Apple has released an update to iWork that in addition to fixing a handful of bugs, adds the ability to export Pages documents in the ePub format.

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Getting a better service from Pages

by Tom Gorham on 24 August 2010 in iWork
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Pages may not come with as many features as Word, but by using services that are already built-in to Mac OS X, you can improve its functionality. If I’d been given a pound for every time someone has told me: ‘Pages can’t do that’ or ‘Pages is missing feature x’, it’s fair to say that [...]

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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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iWork.com goes mobile

by Kenny Hemphill on 19 March 2010 in Apple software

Apple has made a number of significant changes to iWork.com in preparation for the launch of the iPad next month. “you can now log into the sharing service from an iPhone Redesigned Sign In and Shared Documents mean you can now log into the document sharing service from an iPhone and iPod touch and see [...]

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