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iWork ’08
Apple has been producing office suites for its computers on and off since it introduced
one of the first office suites for the Apple II called AppleWorks. Later, AppleWorks
reemerged for the Macintosh computer from Apple’s Claris subsidy, initially called ClarisWorks.
It was renamed AppleWorks when parts of Claris were reabsorbed back into Apple (the remaining
parts of Claris were formed into FileMaker, which makes the wonderful FileMaker Pro
database). AppleWorks continued even after the first version of iWork was introduced in 2005
(though it hadn’t had a significant upgrade since 2004), but shortly after the release of
iWork ’08, Apple declared that AppleWorks would no longer be sold. So today, iWork ’08 is not
only Apple’s premier Office suite, but it’s Apple’s only one.
iWork ’08 contains three common office components:
• Keynote ’08, Apple’s presentation software
• Pages ’08, Apple’s word processing and page layout program
• Numbers ’08, Apple’s new spreadsheet application
In this chapter, we will quickly introduce each of these applications.
Keynote ’08
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Initially released as a stand-alone software product in 2003, Keynote is presentation software
that was allegedly developed at Apple specifically for Steve Jobs to use during his keynote presentations
and other Apple events. Over the years, Keynote has gone through a number of
revisions leading up to Keynote ’08 (version 4).
Keynote ’08 (Figure 17-1) ships with 35 themes to get you going quickly. Each of them provides
a number of predesigned layouts (called masters) to suit most of your needs.
Getting started on a new presentation with Keynote is quite easy. When you first start a new
presentation, you will be prompted to select a theme from the Theme Chooser (Figure 17-2).
Once you select your theme, you will be presented with a blank presentation with only a single
slide. As you create your presentation, you will add slides. Each slide can have its own layout
depending on the best way to present your information. The preconfigured layouts can be
selected from the Masters drop-down menu on the toolbar. To create your own themes or layouts,
you can start with the White theme or Blank master and build upon it with the layout tools
provided by Keynote.
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