Editing IWork (section)

===Desktop applications===

====Pages====
{{Main|Pages (word processor)}}
[[Pages (word processor)|Pages]] is a word processing application.

Besides basic word processing functionality, Pages includes templates designed by Apple to allow users to create various types of documents, including [[newsletters]], invitations, [[stationery]], and [[résumé]]s, along with a number of education-themed templates for students and teachers, such as reports and outlines.<ref name="pr05"/><ref name="pr08"/> Pages 5, a complete redesign, removed more than 100 of the features of Pages 4.x, including bookmarks, mail merge, linked text boxes, multiple section capability, ability to set default zoom. It has been slowly adding some back in subsequent 5.x releases (default zoom, for example, can now be set, but still no linked text boxes, multiple select, mail merge, book marks, and more than 90 other features that were present in version 4.3).

Along with Keynote and Numbers, Pages integrates with Apple's iLife suite. Using the Media Browser, users can drag and drop movies, photos and music directly into documents within the Pages application.<ref name="pr05"/> A Full Screen view hides the menubar and toolbars, and an outline mode allows users to quickly create outlines which can easily be rearranged by dragging and dropping, as well as collapsed and expanded. Pages includes support for entering complex equations with [[MathType|MathType 6]] and for reference citing using [[EndNote|EndNote X2]].<ref name="pr09"/>

The Pages application can open and edit Microsoft Word documents (including [[DOC (computing)|DOC]] and [[Office Open XML]] files), and [[Text file|plain text]] documents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.apple.com/iwork/compatibility/|title=iWork – Open, save, and email Microsoft Office files|publisher=Apple|access-date=April 16, 2012}}</ref> Pages 5 can no longer read or export [[Rich Text Format|rich text format]] documents. Pages can also export documents in the DOC, PDF, and ePub formats.<ref name="pr06"/> It cannot read or write [[OpenDocument]] file formats.

As a word-processing application targeted towards creating attractive documents for a range of applications such as lesson plans and newsletters, Pages competes with [[Microsoft Word]], [[Microsoft Publisher]] (never ported to macOS), Apple's own free [[e-book]] and PDF authoring application, [[iBooks Author]], and Adobe's professional-market desktop publishing application [[InDesign]].

====Keynote====
{{Main|Keynote (presentation software)}}
[[Keynote (presentation software)|Keynote]] is an application used to create and play presentations. Its features are comparable to those of [[Microsoft PowerPoint]], though Keynote contains several unique features. Keynote, like Pages and Numbers, integrates with the iLife application suite. Users can drag and drop media from [[iMovie]], [[iTunes]], [[iPhoto]] and [[Aperture (photography software)|Aperture]] directly into Keynote presentations using the Media Browser. Keynote contains a number of templates, transitions, and effects. Magic Move allows users to apply simple transitions to automatically animate images and text that are repeated on consecutive slides.<ref name="pr05"/><ref name="pr08"/><ref name="pr06"/><ref name="pr09"/>

Apple formerly released a Keynote Remote application for iOS that let users view slides and presenter notes and control Keynote presentations with an [[iPhone]] or [[iPod Touch]] over a [[Wi-Fi]] network,<ref name="pr09"/> but that functionality has been rolled into subsequent releases of the main Keynote iOS application.

Keynote supports a number of file formats. By default, presentations are saved as .key files. Keynote can open and edit Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) files. In addition, presentations can be exported as Microsoft PowerPoint files, [[QuickTime]] movies (which are also playable on [[iPod]] and iPhone), [[HTML]] files, and [[PDF]] files. Presentations can also be sent directly to [[iDVD]], [[iTunes]], [[GarageBand]], [[iWeb]],<ref name="pr06"/> and to [[YouTube]].<ref name="pr08"/> The Keynote 09 file format is not backward compatible; .key files saved with Keynote '09 cannot be opened with earlier versions of Keynote.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 26, 2009 |title=Open iWork' 09 flat files as folders |url=http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090225034801527 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227162232/http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090225034801527 |archive-date=February 27, 2009 |access-date=June 6, 2021 |website=Mac OS X Hints}}</ref>

====Numbers====
{{Main|Numbers (spreadsheet)}}
[[Numbers (spreadsheet)|Numbers]] is a spreadsheet application that was added to the iWork suite in 2007 with the release of iWork '08. Numbers, like [[Microsoft Excel]] and other spreadsheet applications, lets users organize data into tables, perform calculations with formulas, and create charts and graphs using data entered into the spreadsheet. Numbers, however, differs from other spreadsheet applications in that it allows users to create multiple tables in a single document on a flexible canvas. Many prebuilt templates, including ones designed for personal finance, education, and business use, are included.<ref name="pr08"/><ref name="pr09"/>

Numbers 2.0 was included with iWork '09, with several improvements. Charts that are pasted into Keynote and Pages are automatically updated across documents when they are changed in Numbers. Additionally, Numbers 2 lets users categorize data in tables by column, which can then be collapsed and summarized.<ref name="pr09"/>

Numbers 3.6 added in the ability to open Numbers '08 spreadsheets, among other things.