Redesigned iWork Apps Now Available In App Store

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The completely new version of the iWork suite Apple announced today is now available in the App Store. Pages, Keynote and Numbers have been redesigned with a more modern design to compliment the new iOS 7 versions.

Here are the release notes for each app:

Pages 5.0

• Stunning new user interface
• Over 60 Apple-designed templates
• Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options
• New Format Panel automatically updates based on selection
• Enhanced change tracking, comments, and highlights; show and hide changes and comments on mouse-over
• Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts
• Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful
• Easy setup for headers, footers, and document body
• Use new 2D bubble charts
• Enhanced conditional highlighting makes it easy to automatically highlight cells based on numbers, text, dates, and durations
• Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook
• Anyone with a shared document link will always have access to the latest version of the document and can edit it with you at iCloud.com
• Access and edit documents from iCloud.com using Pages for iCloud beta
• New unified file format across the Mac, iOS, and the web makes documents work seamlessly everywhere
• Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help
• Pages is now available in Arabic and Hebrew
• Improved support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

Keynote 6.0

• Stunning new user interface
• Brand-new Apple-designed themes
• Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options
• New Format Panel automatically updates based on selection
• New and updated cinematic transitions and animations
• Updated Magic Move animations
• New Emphasis build animations
• Centered canvas for greater layout control
• Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful
• Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts
• Use new 2D bubble charts
• Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter or Facebook
• Anyone with the link will always have access to the latest version of the presentation and can edit it with you at iCloud.com with Keynote for iCloud beta
• New unified file format across the Mac, iOS, and the web makes presentations work seamlessly everywhere
• Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help

Numbers 3.0

• Stunning new user interface
• Brand-new Apple-designed templates
• Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options
• New Format Panel automatically updates based on selection
• Quickly click through a spreadsheet using new tab navigation
• Get function suggestions as soon as you start typing a formula
• Get live formula results, error checking, exact value, and cell format with the new smart cell view
• Add your favorite functions to Quick Calculations for instant results
• Search the integrated function browser for built-in help and sample formulas
• Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful
• Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts
• Use new 2D bubble charts
• Enhanced conditional highlighting makes it easy to automatically highlight cells based on numbers, text, dates, and durations
• Easily filter through large tables with the new Filter Panel
• New star ratings cell format
• Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook
• Anyone with the link will always have access to the latest version of the spreadsheet and can edit it with you at iCloud.com with Numbers for iCloud beta
• All-new calculation engine for fast performance
• New unified file format across Mac, iOS, and web makes spreadsheets work seamlessly everywhere
• Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help

All of these updates are available now in the Mac App Store, and they are available for free to existing users. Pages, Keynote and Numbers are now free with the purchase of a Mac. They also work with iWork for iCloud’s new online collaboration features.

Update: The iOS versions are out too!

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