Having an older Mac (PowerBook), I bought this version of iWork ('05) recently. It does work well, and I have found that Keynote imports PowerPoint files quickly and smoothly. Pages is good and will open Word documents fine (except for missing font messages at times), but a couple of things missing from this version would be more export formats (from both Pages and Keynote), and I'd like to see the ability to import my clipart from AppleWorks (which I have owned for a while). I have a fair amount of clipart from AppleWorks, and would love to be able to import them into Pages in a simple way, but there doesn't appear to be any easy way (and I've searched online for tips about that).
Another limitation of iWorks is that Pages will only import mostly plain AppleWorks word processing documents. I've found that if I used graphics frames in an AW WP doc, Pages won't import it. It will import Word files, but not Apple's own program. Poor planning on Apple's part for those wanting or expecting to 'upgrade' from AppleWorks to iWork. So, I will keep AppleWorks for a bit of a while - until I can get the clipart converted over in some way, and until I get all my old documents from AppleWorks converted to a Pages document. That may take a while, as I have quite a few AppleWorks documents that are not plain WP docs...Get more detail about Apple iWork '05 (Mac) [Old Version].
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