Pages ’09

Macworld's Pages ’09 Coverage

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  Review: Pages ’09 With Pages ’09 Apple has hit a sweet spot: it added necessary features, enhanced existing tools, fixed minor annoyances, and gave users exactly what they asked for, although there are still some minor issues Apple needs to address in order the make the program perfect.
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  Create a photo greeting card in Pages '09 With Mother's Day, Father's Day, and graduations on the horizon, Chris McVeigh demonstrates how to create an original photo greeting card for an inkjet printer in less than 20 minutes.
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  Bugs & Fixes: Losing iWork documents in iCloud Using iCloud to sync your iWork documents across all your devices generally works well when syncing among iOS devices. Syncing to and from Macs is another story, as Ted Landau details.
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  Five favorite text-selection tips Learn how to go beyond a mere drag or double-click with these more advanced techniques for text selection.
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  Five fundamental text-selection tips Some few of us are perfect writers and typists. The rest of us have to go back and select text to change it. And we do it a lot. A few tricks for making text selection a easier can save loads of time. Here are five you should know.
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  Archiving e-mail messages as text files A reader seeks a way to easily move portions of e-mail messages into a word processing documents. Here are a variety of solutions for your consideration.
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  How to create labels with Pages Pages doesn’t ship with any built-in label templates, but it’s actually easy to create and use standard labels with the program if you know a few tricks.
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  Apple releases iWork Update 5, Keynote Remote 1.2 New additions to iWork '09 on the Mac, iWork.com, and Apple's official Keynote Remote app allow you to play Keynote presentations at iWork.com or embed them in other sites. A few other features and fixes for Pages and Keynote round out a worthwhile update.
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  Find special characters in Pages Sometimes, you want to find special characters like Tabs and Returns, but the program won't let you enter those characters directly in search forms. One OS X Hints reader found a way.
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  Create Shrinky Dink ornaments on your Mac Creating Shrinky Dink ornaments with the kids is a fun way to prepare for the holidays. You just need iPhoto, Pages, an inkjet printer, special paper, and scissors.
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  Office apps showdown: Word processors Which word processor is best: Word 2011, iWork '09, or Google Docs? Jeffery Battersby used all three to create a typical business report; here's how he'd rank them.
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  View Pages files in Windows Sometimes you're forced to send Pages (or other iWork) files to Windows-using colleagues. Here's how they can view those files on their PCs.
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  Create a gift journal in Pages '09 While store-bought gifts are great for the holidays, nothing conveys personal regard more than a homemade gift, either by itself or perhaps accompanying something you've purchased. Here's how to make beautiful and personalized notebook journals with Pages '09.
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  Painless tattoos with Pages ‘09 Looking for some memorable holiday fun at your next party? Try temporary tattoos. It's easy with Pages '09, a Mac, and the inkjet printer of your choice.
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  Diversify your Pages templates Looking for that perfect Pages template for your project? Here's a handy guide to finding hundreds of unique designs.