Chapter 1: Introducing the iWork for iOS Apps for iPad

In This Chapter

check.png Getting familiar with the iWork for iOS apps

check.png Discovering the basics of the iWork apps

check.png Improving documents by adding photos and images

check.png Managing your iWork documents

Word-processing and spreadsheet applications are among the most widely used software products; presentation software is not far behind, along with programs such as graphics and database editors. Having started from scratch on the hardware side and then the operating system side, Apple employees started dreaming about what they could do if they were to start from scratch to write modern versions of word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs. They knew they’d have to follow one of their advertising campaign themes: Think Different.

The result was the iWork suite of applications (a collection of applications that can work together) for the Mac — Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — that were developed one by one over a period of several years.

Today, iWork is a terrific suite of programs that have become a trio of dynamite apps for iPad.

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