Overview
Dress up office documents the Apple way with iWork '09 and this friendly guide
If you're a Mac lover and want to explore life outside of that "other productivity suite," here's your chance to dress up your docs with Apple's iWork '09 and this easy-to-follow guide from Mac technology expert, Jesse Feiler. He draws on 20 years of experience with Apple software to share his secrets of producing fun and creative files using Apple iWork '09.
Explore iWork's word processing software, called Pages, and start cranking out text that not only reads well, it looks great. Add style to your spreadsheets with Numbers. And produce dazzling presentations with Keynote—all of it with iWork's special bells and whistles that will give your everyday documents extra Apple style. Discover how to:
- Use this creative office productivity suite for your Mac
- Harness the creative possibilities of iWork for home or office
- Write text documents that look great, too
- Crunch numbers and build spreadsheets that look great with Numbers
- Easily build presentations that include multimedia and more
Why work when you can iWork with this great guide-and have some fun, too!
Synopsis
Be productive the Mac way! Discover the creative possibilities of iWork '09
Not only can you do the same things with iWork that you can with that "other" suite of office productivity tools, but you can spend less and be more creative too. Here's how to start creating slick-looking documents and page layouts with Pages, knockout charts and reports with Numbers, and presentations with polish using Keynote. Why settle for less?
- Get down to work — find your way around iWork and discover how the tools let you work more efficiently
- Do it and reuse it — take advantage of iWork functionality such as themes and templates that you can customize and reuse
- Turn the Pages — work with Pages templates, set preferences, and create templates of your own
- Dress up your documents — see how Pages combines word processing with design capabilities for great layouts
- It's on the table — take advantage of tables in Numbers to make spreadsheets more visually appealing
- Chart it — display data in charts that communicate
- Capture their attention — choose from among Keynote's themes to create visually stunning presentations
- Finishing touches — add video and sound to your Keynote presentation
Open the book and find:
- Shortcut menus and commands
- How to manage and customize the iWork toolbar
- Tips for working with the Inspectors
- How to make the most of tables and formulas
- How to work with ready-made templates that you can modify
- Cool ways to dress up Keynote presentations
- Ways to automate your work with AppleScript and Automator
- What you can do with iWork.com
- How to use Keynote's multiscreen Presenter Display