Apple has pushed out updates for the iPad versions of Numbers, Keynote, and Pages. These updates ad a slew of new features and bug fixes. Numbers: – Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel (.XLS) format. – Copy spreadsheets between Numbers and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service. – Ability to group and ungroup objects. – […]
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Updates Issued for Numbers, Keynote, and Pages for iPad

Sep 23rd 2010 by

Apple has pushed out updates for the iPad versions of Numbers, Keynote, and Pages. These updates ad a slew of new features and bug fixes.

Numbers:
– Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel (.XLS) format.
– Copy spreadsheets between Numbers and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
– Ability to group and ungroup objects.
– Open CSV files from Mail and other apps.

Keynote:
– Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format.
– Copy presentations between Keynote and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
– Support for audio in builds when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.
– Ability to group and ungroup objects.
– Add animated builds to grouped objects.
– Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations.
– Revolving Door, Swoosh and Wipe slide transition animations.

Pages:
– Copy documents between Pages and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
– Option to display the word count for your document.
– Support for opening .txt files from Mail.
– Ability to group and ungroup objects.
– Import and export existing footnotes, endnotes, sections and tables of contents.
– Import and export Pages ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.

I love the iPad versions of the iWork apps; they’re great. However, I found (and it’s a shame that MS Office is the standard) that Office compatibility was lacking. That is no longer the case.

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