Apple releases Pages 1.0.1, Keynote 2.0.1

Apple today released updates to its Keynote presentation software and Pages word processor. According to Apple, the 21.8 MB Keynote 2.0.1 update addresses "isolated issues that may have affected reliability for some customers." Meanwhile, a 28.3 MB Pages 1.0.1 patch aims to correct "isolated issues that may have affected reliability for some customers and resolves an issue related to deleting complete pages." Both updates are currently available through the Mac OS X Software Update mechanism, but were not yet available from the the company's software download site at the time this blurb was published.

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17 Comments

vocaro

said about 19 years ago

As of 4:54pm PST, my Software Update does not show either of these updates, even though I have both programs installed. Did AppleInsider jump the gun on this one?

zenatek

said about 19 years ago

No I have installed the updates and they fixed the fact you couldn't delete an entire page in Pages.

Thankyou apple for fixing that! I dont know how they left it out.

d.j. adequate

said about 19 years ago

Wow, those are big updates for "isolated" issues. I installed them, but I haven't really had that many issues with either program. I wonder what all changed.

m01ety

said about 19 years ago

Quote:

Originally posted by zenatek
No I have installed the updates and they fixed the fact you couldn't delete an entire page in Pages.

Thankyou apple for fixing that! I dont know how they left it out.

They didn't "leave it out". You don't delete entire pages in Word, do you? You delete the content. The problem was that by being so similar to Keynote, which *does* permit slides to be deleted, and by explicitly adding a "new page" option as opposed to creating new pages when the content overflowed from the previous page, they confused users.

kickaha

said about 19 years ago

Except that now it's added. I'm not entirely sure it was left out on purpose. In case you hadn't noticed, this isn't Word. It's a strange combo of word preocessor and layout app. I like it.

Caveats: to delete a page, you must have manually inserted it. If you insert a page, then keep typing past the end, and make, say, three pages of text, then try and delete the middle one, it won't work. It will want to delete all three. It doesn't really delete *pages*, but *sections*, as far as I can tell. When you insert a page, it creates breaks on either end, and the Delete Page(s) function uses those as its guidelines.

All it needs is a visual section/page picker. I think that would help clarify to people what it's doing, as well as make a nice addition. Perhaps a sidebar or drawer?