![]() ![]() If you share your file with someone else, they can edit that file using iCloud’s web interface on a Mac or PC. Most importantly, you can share documents with colleagues and they don’t even need an iCloud account or a Mac to work on a document with you in real time. This is Apple’s huge announcement, and it’s honestly a game changer for people looking to collaborate with others. New templates, animations, and transitions all add up to prettier presentations with improved interactivity on iOS 7 and OS X. Keynote gets updated transitions that are more dynamic than before. Apple says they have 30 “cinema-quality” transitions lined up to make presentations pop, with physics based object animations creating a sense of fluid realism. As with pages, the sidebar and toolbar have also been updated for OS X and iOS 7 respectively. What this means is that when you create a timeline of data, comparing various points of data becomes easy since you can interact with graphs in real time via a virtual slider. Numbers gets interactive charts that can be updated in real time. As before, all of your documents sync between iCloud, ensuring that the latest changes to your documents are available across all of your devices. Depending on what you’re doing, such as writing text or working with images, the sidebar changes to reflect things you can do. On the Mac, the previous info panel is no longer a floating palette, but an integrated sidebar that’s not terribly different from the ribbon in Microsoft Word. It lets you access things font styles and text alignment without having to navigate through a popover. Pages gets a new toolbar on iOS 7 and a context aware formatting panel on the Mac. The toolbar, or formatting bar, is placed directly above the keyboard on iOS 7. Remember, iWork consists of: Pages for research papers, flyers, and documents Numbers for spreadsheets, charts, and graphs and Keynote for slideshows and presentations. iWork is also now available on the web, and those apps are just like their desktop counterparts. It’s all very impressive, but perhaps the biggest news doesn’t even revolve around either of these products. ![]() On OS X, updated icons deliver a pop of color while undergoing Safari-like improvements that streamline the experience. ![]() On iOS, you’ll get an experience consistent with previous versions of iWork while taking on the visual aesthetics of iOS 7. Apple has updated both the iOS 7 and OS X versions of these apps, updating the look and feel for each respective platform. The heading gives you the short version of what’s happening with all of the iWork apps. IWork: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote redesigned and now in glorious 64-bit. ![]()
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