Apple just made Pages, Keynote & Numbers great again

Pages, Numbers and Keynote are fab and free

Apple’s latest iWork updates are full of new features – including an excellent implementation of machine intelligence and imaging.

Updates available now

Apple’s Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps have all been updated and these enhancements are available now. Updates are available for both iOS and macOS systems.

They bring a range of useful new capabilities:

• Across all apps, users can stylize their text by filling it in with gradients or images of their choice, or by applying new outline styles.
• All iOS apps now offer advanced options for editing lists, charts and tables, and can now create customized bullets, changing their design, color, size and more.
• In Pages, users can copy and paste entire pages or sections between different documents.
• In Numbers, there is greatly improved accuracy using an enhanced 128-bit calculation engine.
• In Keynote, master slides can now be edited while collaborating on a presentation
• Using face detection, subjects in photos are intelligently positioned in placeholders and objects.

Further information

There are some differences between the iOS and MacOS versions of the newly-upgraded apps. Here are some further highlights with links to more information.

Pages:

• Create links from text to other pages in a page layout document
• Copy and paste pages or sections between documents
• Place images, shapes, and equations inline in text boxes so they move with text.

iOS: https://support.apple.com/kb/ht207242

Mac: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT207243

Numbers:

Greatly improved accuracy using the enhanced 128-bit calculation engine.

• Add rows to filtered tables.
• Adjust the appearance of cell borders in table
• Place images, shapes, and equations inline in text boxes so they move with text.

iOS: https://support.apple.com/kb/ht207245

Mac: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT207244

Keynote:

• Edit master slides while collaborating on a presentation.
• Adjust the appearance of cell borders in tables.
• Choose Learn Spelling to add a word to the spelling dictionary.

iOS: https://support.apple.com/kb/ht207246

Mac: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT207247

The updated apps with their very impressive enhancements are available now via the App Store.

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