Chapter 14
Docs and Spreadsheets and Presentations, Oh My!
IN THIS CHAPTER
Accessing your apps
Producing beautiful documents with Pages
Crunching numbers with Numbers spreadsheets
Introducing Keynote presentations
Most folks on the planet have heard of Microsoft’s venerable set of applications typically known as Office. Office includes Word for word processing and page layout, Excel for spreadsheets and charts, and PowerPoint for creating and delivering presentations, among other apps. Whether you work in a high-rise building, a classroom, or on your back porch, chances are you’ve used one or all of them at some point in your life.
Well, Apple has a similar set of tools that provide the same services, but with the benefits of being more user-friendly and accessible than their more famous Microsoft counterparts. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote were introduced as part of Apple’s iWork suite of productivity tools back in 2005. Pages handles word processing and page layout (similar to MS Word), Numbers is a spreadsheet tool (like Excel), and Keynote is Apple’s equivalent to PowerPoint. ...
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