Sometimes we forget that Apple has an interesting range of office automation products. These products were previously paid, such as Microsoft Office. However, it did not take too long for Apple to realize that it could never compete in that area with the guys from Redmond, and Office is undoubtedly the King of office automation and will continue to be. For this reason, Apple chose with the launch of the iPhone 5s to give away the iWork suite to any user who bought one of its products from that date. This has been the case, and not for that reason the development of iWork has declined. Today, along with updates to macOS, watchOS, and iOS, we also received a full update from iWork.
We are going to give a review of the news that iWork presents after this update, and why it is worth giving it a try if you are not a subscriber of another type of software such as Microsoft Office.
Pages
Let's go first with the text editor, it has already reached version 3.1 and offers us very interesting options, such as protect our documents through TouchID, a second layer of protection that many users demanded and that had been present in the Notes application for some time, for example. The other interesting novelty is the possibility of adding markers to link to different parts of the text, or the possibility of using guide lines from the pie charts to facilitate reading. This is the complete list of news.
• Add bookmarks to easily link different parts of a document.
• Add fancy math equations using LaTeX or MathML notation.
• Open password-protected documents quickly with Touch ID.
• Import and export documents in RTF format.
• Easily replace missing fonts in a document.
• Use the new pie chart guidelines for easier reading.
• Customize dates, times and currencies according to your language or region.
Numbers
We now continue with the spreadsheets, which would be the faithful equivalent of Microsoft Office Excel. Neither is anything short, also reaching version 3.1. As in Pages, you can protect your spreadsheets through TouchID and code if you wish, privacy by flag, always in an Apple product. You can also add superscripts, subscripts and change the background color of the text. But we do not stop here, the action menu has been renewed so that you can save steps when executing your most common actions. By last, They have added a kind of widget that will allow you to add stock information surprisingly fast. Apple's bag fetish despite its scant real application.
• Add current or historical stock information to a spreadsheet with ease.
• New editing capabilities allow you to enter data and formulas quickly and easily.
• Complete common tasks in one step with the new action menu.
• Quickly open password-protected spreadsheets with Touch ID.
• Formats text with superscripts or subscripts, uses ligatures and changes the background color of the text.
• Use the new pie chart guidelines for easier reading.
• Easily replace missing fonts in a spreadsheet.
• You can now cut, copy, paste and duplicate sheets while collaborating on a spreadsheet.
• Customize dates, times and currencies according to your language or region.
• Edit formatted text within table cells.
Keynote
And finally the slides. Prepare your presentations for that interview. Once again the Touch ID is the main attraction, although these are all the news that Apple offers us.
• Rehearse a presentation with the current slide, presenter notes, and timer, in one view.
• Open password-protected presentations quickly with Touch ID.
• Formats text with superscripts or subscripts, uses ligatures and changes the background color of the text.
• Easily replace missing fonts in a presentation.
• Use the new pie chart guidelines for easier reading.
• Import presentations from Keynote 1.
• Post interactive presentations on websites like Medium or WordPress.
• Customize dates, times and currencies according to your language or region.