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I use Keynote all the time, but I need to export in multiple formats to multiple people. Removing the Flash export was a deal breaker. I am sticking with '08 until Apple brings Flash export back.

(15 of 16 people found this review useful)

4 more licenses for twenty dollars? Of course that makes for a good deal.

This a new version made brought Pages and Numbers closer to the level of Keynote and added some features like iWork.com that liftedall of iWork over MS Office.

Pages (more templates, more solid, better conversions)
- export as PDF is invaluable for sending secure offer letters, statements, etc
- blank pages are great when you don't need any special format
- the templates allow for professional last-minute jobs
- the number word to pages conversion issue is fonts. Add the font and the issue is resolved.
Numbers
- The multiple spreadsheets on a page is excellent for data integrity and quickly drag/drop addition to an front page spreadsheet.
- is able to do all the math that i have been able to through at it from every aspect of capital accumulation with forecasted vs. actual comparisons
Keynote
- the templates are great and more is better
- this replaced powerpoint for me in Baghdad and got more attention for my embassy briefings ( i know since people asked me who I had preparing my presentations)

The '09 version
- iwork.com THIS IS WHY YOU NEED THE '09 version
- I use this for peer reviews of contact reports
- I use this to get feedback from mentors and SMEs on articles I am writing
- I use this for near real-time presentation and discussion in iChat video conferences

This product has enabled me to operate completely with out MS Office in the DoD/DoS sector. I recommend Bento2(over access) to round out a complete MS Office suite substitute.

(10 of 13 people found this review useful)

I have had to endure using MS Office because it is what the rest of my PC coworkers use. iWork 09 mad such dramatic improvements in ease of use and the presentation of finished documents, I'll take the slight draw back of having to convert file back and forth. iWork 09 does a good job of reading and writing MS Office files, there are only minor issues that take less than 10 min to fix. As my IT guy said he wishes iWork was for windows then he would switch the whole company to iWork.

(80 of 83 people found this review useful)

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!

(30 of 40 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)

(50 of 54 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.

(36 of 37 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.

(27 of 75 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)