iWork® '09 For Dummies®

Appendix A. Using iWork.com

In This Chapter

• Sharing documents over the Web

• Using multiple formats for sharing

• Adding and reviewing notes for iWork documents

• Adding and reviewing comments in documents

iWork '09 comes with a new feature: a public beta version of iWork.com. This is a new way of sharing your iWork documents as you work on them.

Want to work with two colleagues on a presentation? No big deal: Start by uploading your Keynote document. Then a friend can download it and make changes in the document as a Microsoft PowerPoint document. Back it goes to the Internet, and someone else can download it in yet another format. This is an example of a new trend called cloud computing. It's also an example of people being able to work together on their own terms. You don't have to get together and decide which presentation (or spreadsheet or word processing) application you'll all use.

The Share menu (new in iWork '09) lets you send documents from Keynote, Numbers, and Pages via email; it also lets you send an iWork document to GarageBand, iDVD, iTunes, iPhoto, iWeb, and YouTube.

iWork.com adds another way of collaborating on a document. You can post an iWork document to your iWork.com area, where it is visible to you and to people you invite to view it. Those people can then add notes and comments to the documents on the Web.

You can download documents from iWork.com in a variety of formats. This makes two types of interactions possible:

• Comments and notes on iWork documents: You can add comments ...