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Apple's amazing productivity suite for the Mac, iWork ’08 includes three applications: Pages ’08 for word processing with an incredible sense of style; Numbers ’08 for powerful, compelling spreadsheets made easy; and Keynote ’08 for cinema-quality presentations for everyone.

Numbers ’08
Introducing Numbers ‘08, an innovative spreadsheet application that lets you organize your data to fit the way you think. Do everything from setting-up the family budget to completing a lab report to creating complex financial documents. Resize and sort tables without affecting other data. Create beautiful charts with one click. Scale spreadsheets for printing using an interactive slider.

Numbers ’08 Highlights:
* More than 150 functions
* Intelligent tables
* 2D and 3D charts
* Interactive print view
* Apple-designed templates for home, education, and business
* Import from and export to Microsoft Excel and other formats

Pages '08
Writing comes naturally when you’re using Pages ’08. Start with one of over 140 templates to write beautiful letters, resumes, reports, business plans, and more. And create media-rich newsletters, brochures, and flyers with point-and-click ease.

Pages '08 Highlights:
* Streamlined word processing
* Powerful page layout
* Change tracking
* Advanced image tools
* More than 140 Apple-designed templates, including 80 new templates
* Import from and export to Microsoft Word and other formats

Keynote ’08
Create stunning, cinema-quality presentations more easily than ever with Keynote ’08. Use new animation tools to move and scale images along a path. Or rotate them on the face of a cube or on a turntable. Add dazzling text effects and slide transitions. Even record and deliver narrated presentations.

Keynote ’08 Highlights:
* More than 35 Apple-designed themes
* Smart Builds with drop zones
* Powerful graphics tools, including Instant Alpha
* Built-in narration recording
* Export to YouTube, iPhone, and iPod
* Import from and export to Microsoft PowerPoint and other formats

iWork ’08 supports a wide range of industry standard file formats.
* Pages 2 imports/exports Microsoft Word, RTF, HTML, and plain text files, imports AppleWorks files, and exports PDF.
* Keynote 3 imports Microsoft PowerPoint and AppleWorks files and exports PowerPoint, QuickTime, Macromedia Flash, PDF, HTML, and images files. Keynote 3 also exports to iLife.
* iWork ’06 also imports a range of media including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, EPS, PDF, and QuickTime.