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Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 06:00 pm
Apple updates iWork for iPad with new iDisk, Office support
Apple on Wednesday released a significant update to its iWork suite of productivity applications for the iPad, delivering support for copying files to a Mobile Me iDisk and exporting documents in native Microsoft Office formats.Apple sells each of the three applications for $9.99 on the App Store. Wednesday's release is the second update issued for the suite since it was introduced earlier this year alongside the iPad. A more detailed list of enhancements to the Pages, Keynote and Numbers applications are provided by Apple:
Pages 1.2
- Copy documents between Pages and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
- Option to display the word count for your document.
- Support for opening .txt files from Mail.
- Ability to group and ungroup objects.
- Import and export existing footnotes, endnotes, sections and tables of contents.
- Import and export Pages ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.
- Improved export of tables with customized borders.
- Improved font matching when importing a Pages or Microsoft Word document.
- Improved creation and editing of hyperlinks.
- Improved text options for tables including font, size and color settings for individual cells.
- Improved usability and reliability when sharing documents via iWork.com public beta.
- Improved reliability when importing documents with large images.
- Improved reliability when importing and exporting documents with overlapping objects.
- Improved handling of fonts when exporting documents to Microsoft Word.
- Improved reliability and performance when importing Microsoft Word documents.
Keynote 1.2
- Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format.
- Copy presentations between Keynote and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
- Support for audio in builds when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.
- Ability to group and ungroup objects.
- Add animated builds to grouped objects.
- Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations.
- Revolving Door, Swoosh and Wipe slide transition animations.
- Improved slide size conversion when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.
- Import and export Keynote ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.
- Improved export of tables with customized borders.
- Improved font matching when importing Keynote ’09 or Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
- Improved creation and editing of web hyperlinks.
- Improved text options for tables including font, size and color settings for individual cells.
- Improved usability and reliability when sharing presentations with iWork.com public beta.
- Improved reliability when importing presentations with large images.
- Improved reliability when importing and exporting presentations with overlapping objects.
- Improved reliability and performance when importing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
Numbers 1.2
- Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel (.XLS) format.
- Copy spreadsheets between Numbers and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
- Ability to group and ungroup objects.
- Open CSV files from Mail and other apps.
- Import and export Numbers ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.
- Improved export of tables with customized borders.
- Improved font matching when importing Numbers ’09 or Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
- Improved creation and editing of hyperlinks in text boxes.
- Improved text options for tables including font, size and color settings for individual cells.
- Improved usability and reliability when sharing spreadsheets with iWork.com public beta.
- Improved reliability when importing spreadsheets with large images.
- Improved reliability when importing and exporting spreadsheets with overlapping objects.
- Improved reliability and performance when importing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
All three of the updates are free for registered owners of earlier versions of the apps.
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Export to ppt and xls. Finally thank you!
I held off buying Keynote and Numbers because of inability to export to ppt and xls..
Awesome. So finally fonts aren't broken when imported into Pages on iPad from Pages on the Mac 
I have to say, this was the primary reason why I tried to avoid using Pages on iPad as much as possible until they got their act together 
Encryption is missing.
Wow, this is huge. With printing and multitasking coming in November, this is really, really huge and gets me a lot closer to being able to travel with just my iPad.
Slowly but surely the ipad is becoming more useful...
Now, if you could use storage/easy free access, that would be good.
Add facetime and I have my travel toy
Nice update in some respects, but the PDF export is still broken.
Awesome. So finally fonts aren't broken when imported into Pages on iPad from Pages on the Mac
I have to say, this was the primary reason why I tried to avoid using Pages on iPad as much as possible until they got their act together I'm not sure that this was ever a problem, at least not an unexpected one. If the fonts aren't on the iPad, a substitute is used, just as it would be on a desktop PC. If the iPad did this any differently, I had not noticed. The real problem with iWork for the iPad is that fonts aren't properly embedded in documents created on the iPad when they are exported to a PDF. It's an embarrassing bug that sadly Apple has not fixed in this version.
This is great news. However, Numbers running under MacOS needs a lot of refining. In particular, parsing of data and graph control both need to become more sophisticated in order for Numbers even to be usable under many circumstances that I encounter. I had also hoped to use Keynote on the iPad in presenting lectures prepared on my MBP. However, too many features in my presentations fell over or were missing and so I haven't yet had the opportunity.
Refining apps takes time and no doubt, eventually, the iPad versions will match the capability of their MacOS cousins, which themselves will continue to grow in sophistication.
I am surprised they did not add printing support ala mail, photos, etc.
They coulda gotta double banger with the developers who have iOS 4.2.
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This is an amazing update that significantly increases the utility of the apps. I especially appreciate the Pages word count and TXT opening, Excel export and CSV opening, and Keynote's Powerpoint export, audio build-ins, and additional animations. I love that lens flare build animation.