April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
40h
English
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What’s New in iWork ’09
iWork ’09 introduces several new features that apply to all three programs:
iWork.com. Apple’s new Web-based service lets you share your Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents online with invited guests. Although you can’t edit the file online, you and your reviewers can browse and comment on it at iWork.com, which displays a pixel-perfect replica of your document right in your Web browser.
New themes and templates. All three programs get a healthy update of new templates, giving you lots of slick new starter documents to work with.
New chart features. iWork offers two new flavors of charts—two-axis charts and mixed charts—both of which let you display your data series in different styles (columns, areas, or lines) in the same chart. Error bars and trendlines are also available for the first time.
Enhanced Template Chooser and Theme Chooser. You can now preview the contents of template files before you open them by skimming your cursor across each template’s thumbnail image. The new choosers also remember the last template you used and let you open recent documents directly from the chooser window.
Font preview. The Format Bar’s font pop-up menu now lists each font in its own font face.
Password protection. You can require a password to open any iWork file.
Connection lines. Add flexible lines to point from one object to another.
Equation editing with MathType 6. iWork doesn’t have its own equation editor, but if you have the MathType program installed, you can now ...
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