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Apple Updates iWork Apps With New Features on Mac, iPad, and iPhone

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Apple today updated its trio of iWork apps Keynote, Numbers, and Pages for the Mac, iPad, and iPhone with several new features and changes.

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The release notes for version 14.0 of the Mac apps follow, and the release notes for version 14.0 of the iPad and iPhone apps are nearly identical.

Keynote

• Add a new look to your slides with the Dynamic Color, Minimalist Light, and Minimalist Dark themes
• Streamlined in-app notifications inform you when a person joins a collaborative presentation for the first time
• Preserve file format and full quality when adding HEIC photos taken on iPhone or iPad
• Press and hold the Command key to select noncontiguous words, sentences, or paragraphs
• Improved compatibility for slide transitions when importing and exporting Microsoft PowerPoint files
• Additional stability and performance improvements

App Store links: Mac and iPad/iPhone.

Numbers

• Streamlined in-app notifications inform you when a person joins a collaborative spreadsheet for the first time
• Preserve file format and full quality when adding HEIC photos taken on iPhone or iPad
• Press and hold the Command key to select noncontiguous words, sentences, or paragraphs
• Additional stability and performance improvements

App Store links: Mac and iPad/iPhone.

Pages

• Press and hold the Command key to select noncontiguous words, sentences, or paragraphs
• Streamlined in-app notifications inform you when a person joins a collaborative document for the first time
• Preserve file format and full quality when adding HEIC photos taken on iPhone or iPad
• Additional stability and performance improvements

App Store links: Mac and iPad/iPhone.

Tags: iWork, Keynote, Numbers, Pages

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Top Rated Comments

randolorian Avatar
randolorian
31 months ago
These are great apps. A strong alternative to the MS Office suite if you are a light, non-corporate user.
Score: 52 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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citysnaps
31 months ago
Nice update. They're outstanding apps.
Score: 26 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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BanjoDudeAhoy
31 months ago

These are great apps. A strong alternative to the MS Office suite if you are a light, non-corporate user.
And they seem to start a lot faster than MS Office as well.
I only recently started using Pages because I prefer its clean and simple UI over Word’s overflowing and bloated one.
Score: 23 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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MonkeySpank158
31 months ago
Welcome updates to these programs. I personally find these to be much better than MS Office, and I use Keynote frequently for my son’s homeschooling. I love the new ability to hold cmd for noncontiguous selection, I’m constantly trying to do that, not just in iWork.
Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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dizmonk
31 months ago

These are great apps. A strong alternative to the MS Office suite if you are a light, non-corporate user.
I use Keynote and Pages regularly instead of Powerpoint and Word. The only reason I use Word at all is that most users are in either Google Docs or Word.
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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gk_brown
31 months ago

The only reason I use Word at all is that most users are in either Google Docs or Word.
Import/export works pretty well in Pages.
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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