Apple iWork '06 (Mac DVD) [OLDER VERSION]

List Price: $79.00 Discount Price: $35.95

Features:

• Create eyecatching three-dimensional charts, tables with calculations, freeform shapes and photo.
• Pages 2 includes mail merge, auto-correction, and new Page
• Keynote 3 features stunning new animation effects, a Light Table view, and tools to help you rehearse, present, and publish with ease.
• The powerful new features in iWork ‘06 make it easy to get just the look you want.
• Create beautiful documents and cinema-quality presentations in minutes with iWork ’06, including Pages 2 and Keynote 3.

Customer Reviews:

No Upgrade Pricing [Posted on 2007-08-09]
Apple has created a new version of iWork, and they provide no upgrade pricing, effectively sticking it to customers and vendors. If you buy this product, you will be stuck with the old version and have to pay FULL PRICE for the new version that contains a spreadsheet application.

And, yes, Apple deleted any comments complaining about the upgrade policy on their discussion boards.

Good apps [Posted on 2007-08-17]
These are very easy to use yet powerful applications for OS X. As a Windows transplant, I still I still prefer the "within-one-window" program design. Having couple Mac programs open would some times give me 5 to 6 windows, i.e. font palette, paragraph formating, etc. Very cluttered.

whoohoo. I love my Imac and iwork [Posted on 2007-09-08]
My imac is so intuitive. It was scarey moving to Mac after all the horror stories by PC geeks. What a breath of fresh air. No noise, no fuss, just a beautiful machine that works! The software is also intuitive and easy to use. Makes me look good!

iWork-06 Oages [Posted on 2007-10-17]
I've just purchased the '06 edition of iWork so as to have use of Pages on my Mac using OS 10.3.9. I needed the '06 edition because updating the operating system to OS 10.4 or better to use iWork-08 would have left me without Mac Classic to work with my older files.
I've worked with the Pages program and find it is exellent and, as usual, has many more features that I'll ever use. When I thought of some publication design step I wanted to take, it was easy to find the instructions to do that step in the Help menu.
You will love working with Pages.

Mac users.... [Posted on 2008-02-06]
are used to simplicity. For me to have to follow instructions like

1.Select the text you want to make bold or italic, or click where you want to type new text.
2.Choose Format > Font > Bold or Format > Font > Italic
is ludicrous, when I simply want to make something italic. Is this really an Apple creation? It doesn't act like one.

I'm also informed that if I plan to us a particular text format (such as italic) often, I can create a style. More steps. Then the style has a specific size associated with it.

Many features are simply not intuitive enough and likewise have too many steps.

I think in trying to avoid looking like Word, they went a little too far and avoided the positive aspects as well. (Example, font selection. What a hassle it is!)

On the positive side, it does have an elegant look, and some nice templates. If it would just work, I would love it.

Overall, I wish I had stayed with Word. Believe me, it is hard for a confirmed Mac user to say those words.

It will do the job, it will just take you longer.

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