Anyone who has ever said that the Apple iPad isn’t meant for doing work is, well, mostly right. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get stuff done with the tablet computer as long as you have apps like Keynote, Pages an Numbers, or the iWork suite for iPad. You can work on spreadsheets (fun!), create and edit documents (double fun!) and wow people with your presentations on Keynote. While the iWork apps did have some bugs, Apple has worked on fixing them with new software updates.
Apple has gone ahead and update the individual apps in iWork to include not just bug fixes, but new features, functions and support for other applications, too. Overall, it appears that the entire suite of apps should work a little nicer now.
Included in the update is:
Keynote
– 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.
Numbers
– 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.
Pages
– 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.
If you find yourself relying on these apps on a daily or even weekly basis, go ahead and update your iWork apps now for bug fixes and additional functions.
[Via: Mac Rumors]