iWork ’10 Guide Pops Up on Amazon.de

Apple usually updates its iLife and iWork suites at roughly the same time, so yesterday’s discovery of an iLife ’10 For Dummies book to be published on September 22nd necessarily hinted at an update iWork 2010 to hit around the same time… providing those dummy guys knew what the hell they were writing about.

Today, though, independent confirmation: an iWork 2010 guide called iWork ’10: From Zero To Hero has popped up on Amazon Germany.

Of course, without any confirmation from Apple, iLife and iWork ’10 are mere speculation, but it’s been seventeen months since the last update, and it certainly seems, at least, that the software guide industry knows that something is afoot. Maybe they’re not dummies after all.

What improvements would you guys like to see in iWork ’10?

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thanx_Al
One touch Export button on the menu bar. In fact, more options as to what functions can be put in the menu bar. Smaller increments of zoom. Better word wrap around image compatibility with Word (docs often fail to open in Pages because of text placed around images). On this last point, it is a Word problem so I guess you have to try to fix their shitty programming. Inverse contrast button so that I can reverse contrast on the page/spreadsheet without using the system reverse contrast.
Fibonacci
Pivot tables. Categories just don’t cut it. And besides, every other serious spreadsheet app has them. Why not Numbers?
Alfred
They better put Cross-References into Pages or the puppy gets it.
Lloyd Aldrin
The only improvement that matters to me is the the return of the ability to export keynote to flash or an ability to export to html5 or something!
S.M.
Apple is actively advertising their productsat the college level, but iWorks so far had only limited functionality falling short of satisfying higher education needs. Below are some essential functions (supported also by mighty Office 95):
Pages:
- free positioning of TOC in a document.
- hyperlinks from TOC to text
- mixed layouts (portrait/landscape) in a single document
- document map
- enhanced performance with large documents
Numbers:
- macros
- goal seek/solver functionality
- histograms and other add-ons
Keynote:
- drawing over possibility in the presentation mode.
For the the entire suite adding active links to external files.
Superfin
@S.M.: I agree with those!
For my legal papers, I would love to see those additions:
- Referencing improvements: customisable footnote characters per footnote or section and let me customise the footnotes section (to remove the line above and to change the standard formatting of a footnote).
- Fix line-spacing: currently the line-spacing is not very accurate and noticeably uneven. For text-only papers a deal-breaker! (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11275972&#11275972)
- Customisable variables. I have several document templates that only require a few changes, like dates, courts, names etc. When I can create my own text variables, I can change their value in a more efficient way without having to look for every use of the particular variable to change it manually.
- Line numbers. MS Word has a simple option for line numbers. I sometimes rely on those, and the workarounds are not satisfactory.
In addition, I would like to see those changes:
- More variables to use in headers or footers. In large papers, I want to add the title of the chapter or paragraph in the heading. There should be a simple way to do this, just like adding a page number. Also, I would love to see a variable that contains the number of words. So that I don’t have to do this manually. MS Word has a lot of variables in comparison.
- The option to set a standard zoom for Keynote. In Pages you can set a default zoom when you open a blank page (for me 125%). You can’t do this in Keynote, and the 100% default zoom is just too high for my 13.3 inch MacBook.
- Customisable margins for tables in Pages. Currently, you can only set the margin for all four sides of a table altogether. Sometimes I just want to add a bottom margin and reduce the other margins to 0.
http://www.whatdoino-steve.blogspot.com Steve
I can never remember the things I need when asked like this. But I do have an old want, that goes back to wordperfect 5.1. They had an append to file option. You could add one word or a page or more to the end of an existing file. You could just highlight a word or ten, do the append shortcut keys, give the name of the file, and the word or ten would be added to the existing file, without even opening the file. Like saving to a clipboard, only it was saved to a specific file.
I really would love that in iPages.
bill
1. Pivot tables
2. Better export into OFFICE (and import)
3. More than 65335 lines in numbers
4. Macros – with VB type support
5. Pivot tables first and foremost (sorry – but this keeps me using Excel alone!)
Bronwen
As a long-time fan of Appleworks’ spreadsheet, I’d like to see document hot links (click a cell in a table, go to the right spot on another table).
I second the motion for more toolbar customization. I fixed some of the things that bugged me the most using application specific keyboard commands in System Prefs > Keyboard > keyboard shortcuts.
I’d love to see some of the groovy formulas for text manipulation that Filemaker offers, like substitution, length, leftwords, etc.