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iWork '09: The Missing Manual
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iWork '09: The Missing Manual

by Josh Clark
April 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
888 pages
40h
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Acknowledgments

When you’re writing a book about iWork, it turns out that there’s a lot more “we” than “i” involved, and I couldn’t have done it without the help of many talented people. Special thanks to my friend and editor Peter Meyers whose contagious enthusiasm and keen attention to both style and substance kept this book (and its author) focused and friendly. The eagle eyes of technical editors Christian Boyce and Michael Greenberg saved me from myself time and again, spotting nitty-gritty errors and surfacing subtle features that would have otherwise gone unmentioned. This book is the first Missing Manual about iWork since iWork ’05: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink. Many of Jim’s words remain in this edition, for which I’m grateful, but I’m also indebted to Jim’s good humor and plainspoken language, which inspired me to attempt the same in this edition. I’m also grateful to the many people who worked to get this book formatted, indexed, and printed: Thank you, Dawn Frausto, Nellie McKesson, Nancy Reinhardt, Carla Spoon, and Ron Strauss. Many thanks to Apple’s Kirk Paulsen for giving up a few early-morning hours in Paris to explore the nooks, crannies, and deep dark secrets of iWork ’09. Thanks also to Apple’s Mark Elpers, Alan Hely, and Juriaan Bosman for their help along the way.

To show off iWork’s stunning visual features, I relied on the equally stunning work of many photographers. Their names are listed in the Photo Credits section below, but I’d like to single out ...

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