April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
40h
English
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Keeping iWork Up to Date
There’s one more thing you should do before you start using Pages, Keynote,
and Numbers: Make sure your software is up to date. Apple periodically releases
updates for all its software. If you’re connected to the Internet, you can make
sure your new installation of iWork is fully fresh by choosing
→ Software Update. The Software
Update window appears, your computer connects to Apple, and they have a little
chat about which versions of Apple software you have on your computer and which
updates—if any—are available for that software.
Note
Software Update expects to find Pages, Keynote, and Numbers in only one place: inside the iWork ’09 folder, which is nestled inside your Applications folder. Don’t rename the programs or the iWork ’09 folder—that way, Software Update can find them where it expects to.
The results of this conversation appear in the Software Update window as a list of available updates, each with a checkbox that you can turn on to install that update, or turn off to skip it until another time. If you see updates available for Pages, Keynote, or Numbers, turn on their checkboxes, quit the programs if any of them are running, and then click the Install button (which reads “Install 2 Items” if you turned on two checkboxes, for example). The software updaters present you with their own versions of legal boilerplates, which you have to agree to before ...
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