Apple iWork 09 Looks Slick, Adds Useful Features

by Cameron Sturdevant

Here, you see a demonstration of the Magic Move transition effect, going from one slide to the next by sliding a graphic element between the two slides.

Here, I’ve used the Anagram transition to go from one thought to the next using two slides.

This graphic transition is eye candy, but it’s cool eye candy.

A dummy eWEEK expense form is used to create a chart that shows expenses over time.

In the upper center screen, note that I am now able to e-mail this Numbers file.

For businesses, only five templates are included with the product. There are several templates for personal finance and educational purposes.

Here, the expense report chart is now linked to a slide in Keynote.

The same expense report chart now linked to a slide in Keynote matches the style template of the Keynote presentation. Some of the data is truncated. I probably could have fixed this, but it’s how it came across by default.

Here, you see all distractions and clutter removed from the desktop so that the Pages document is placed at the center of attention. This is a nice way to really focus on a project.

Here is the same Pages document in outline mode. Although a more complex outline might have been more impressive, this simple example actually illustrates the outline function and worked well for me on this particular story about Cisco.