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I really depend upon Keynote's ability to export to QuickTime, MPEG-4 and Flash. I cannot find the Flash output. That is a non-starter for me. Must dig deeper but am very impressed by the updates overall in the software!

(20 of 26 people found this review useful)

I have been using Microsoft Office for too long! When I saw the keynote remote in the app store on my iPhone, I just couldn't resist going to my local Apple store and buying this product. I haven't had much time to look at the features and such, but I am very impressed.
Good:
Headers and Footers fade into view if you move your mouse over them
Full screen
No auto-correct like office (i hate those little popups!)
Keynote remote!!!
Great transitions in keynote
Simplicity
Boots up quickly
Mac friendly
Bad:
Spell checker/grammar checker in Pages. It's disappointing that it doesn't know as many words as Word and you can't teach it words. (I probably just don't know how, I'm way to used to office)

(41 of 44 people found this review useful)

I do a lot of work with spreadsheets, databases, and word processors in my work for a non-profit organization, and iWork '09 is simply perfect for me. My two major complaints with the previous version of iWork were the lack of ability to freeze header rows and columns in Numbers and to merge Numbers and Pages documents. Both appear in '09, and they simply work great. In the past I had to continue using Microsoft Office in order to do mail merges and to handle particular types of documents, but those days are almost past. With its increased functionality, I have almost no need for Office anymore. The only thing still missing from Pages (as far as I know) is the ability to create labels using pre-existing label templates that line up with a company such as Avery. (I could be wrong about this, but I haven't found a way to do this in Pages yet.) Once Apple adds this feature, Office will be history on my MacBook.

(32 of 33 people found this review useful)

I downloaded the trial cause I needed to do some updates to a fairly normal spreadsheet in .csv format. Upon import, it told me that it doesn't open files with more than 255 columns, and 65,000 rows - And that it dropped the excess data.

I initially was looking for an alternative to Excel, cause I hate Microsoft and assumed apple would make a more ergonomic product. But if you can't even open a simple spreadsheet? Come on...

Then I tried going around it, and exported my database in XML format, seeing if this would help the situation; only to find out:
---Error---
“export_all_products.xml” could not be handled because Numbers cannot open files in the “Microsoft Excel XML spreadsheet” format.

Now I'm no wiz at spreadsheets, but I would assume the Mac equiv would recognize the need to open spreadsheets in excel format.

(21 of 63 people found this review useful)

I still haven't had much time to check it out, but it seems great. Finally multilingual spell check that works unlike in Word.

My recommendation, if you don't have it buy it. It's worth it!

P.S. Keynote Remote is great. I have an iPhone, love the app. iWork.com seems cool. Still got to try it out.

(20 of 36 people found this review useful)

I've just installed iWork '09.
The EndNote and Mathtype compatibility in Pages are big deal for me. They both work great, and are great new features. The iPhone control of Keynote presentation is also a nice addition to a software that is already much more powerful than PPT! New transitions are nice.
In short, recommended.

(64 of 69 people found this review useful)

I find it simple and powerful. Invites you to be more creative and collaborative. Fully compatible with MS Office like never before (no longer need MS office). And the family pack price provides great value. Only comment is that I wish it provided the ability to spell check in more than one language. The world is now global and we need to communicate in more than 1 language.

(64 of 73 people found this review useful)