TechComputers & PCsLaptopsMacBook, iPhone and iPad users just got these useful free upgradesApple has updated its iWork apps again with some small but significant new featuresWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechComputers & PCsLaptopsMacBook, iPhone and iPad users just got these useful free upgradesApple has updated its iWork apps again with some small but significant new featuresWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Apple has updated its iWork apps again with some small but significant new features
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Apple)
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I thinkApple’s iWork apps are exceptional value for no money: they’re free to everyMacBook,iPhoneandiPadowner, and there isn’t a day that passes when I don’t use at least one of them. Apple doesn’t generally make a big song and dance about updating them, so new features have a tendency to just appear overnight. That’s definitely the case with the latest updates, which add new features but just appeared without any fanfare.
The new features are available in the presentation app Keynote, the spreadsheet app Numbers and the word processing and desktop publishing app Pages. If you don’t already have the apps you can get them from the App Store and Mac App Store; if you do, they should update automatically.
Here’s what’s new.
New features in Pages, Numbers and Keynote.
Numbers is the least interesting app here: Apple’s solid spreadsheet app doesn’t get anything particularly exciting beyond better performance when you’re adding rows and columns to large tables. But the word processing app Pages gets some smart new templates, the long-awaited ability to export in plain TXT files – something I’ve been wishing for for years – and a business-friendly mail merge feature that enables you to create not just letters but personalised cards and envelopes to send to multiple recipients.
The other key changes are in the beautiful presentation app Keynote. You can now use dynamic backgrounds, which move subtly as you change from slide to slide. There’s a collection of new animated themes that include some of those backgrounds, and there’s also a new skip/unskip option for slides in a collapsed group.
There’s nothing here to set the heather on fire, I know, because these are very mature apps: I’ve been using Pages since its debut in 2005, and it’s gone through so much evolution that my features wish list would benefit absolutely nobody else but me. But it’s good to see that Apple continues to tinker with the iWork apps. As another big firm likes to say, every little helps.
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