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 - Useless - BUY SOMETHING ELSE!I bought iWork for one reason and one reason alone: so that I could read my vast number of appleworks 6 documents. Too bad Pages crashes trying to import about 50% of them. And no, there's nothing special about these documents, they're just text files. Apple has also not put out a bug fix update for this software in months, suggesting they're giving up on it. If you're looking for a word processor, there are a number of better options without having to resort to Microsoft products. I strongly recommend against purchasing this product. Rating:  - The Best of a Sad Set of ChoicesMac users have been abandoned by Adobe Framemaker. There are some unix-based page layout programs, some with Mac interfaces, but they are difficult to use compared to Framemaker. MS Word is hopelessly unstable on long documents. Framemaker still runs in Classic, but it's orphaned and Classic ends when we move to MacTel. If you are writing very long documents, your choices are few. Pages is a good start and a decent partial substitute. It does a fair subset of Framemaker, and it is considerably easier to learn. I missing running headers - I REALLY miss running headers - and Pages does crash on occasion. But it handles long documents, has a nice implementation of styles, and comes with a terrific set of templates. For a version 1.0 product, it is very nice. (I strongly suspect that the Pages manual was written in Framemaker, not Pages.) Keynote, which has been around a little longer, is a fine product. Properly used, the transitions can knock your audience's socks off. They leave Powerpoint in the dust. And Keynote is far more stable than it's MS cousin. The connectivity to iPhoto is also a plus. I use Keynote professionally and it has never let me down. I can't say the same about Powerpoint. iWork admittedly needs a spreadsheet. A simple drawing program like OmniGraffle would be useful. But it is a terrific start. Recommended. Rating:  - Pages Not Quite PublisherI bought iWork largely for Pages, which promised to be a good layout tool, and, I hoped, a Microsoft Publisher-like program. (Now, I am a Mac switcher, and not having a consumer-level layout program available for OSX is really a bummer.) It's fine if you like preset layouts and have a deep digital photo collection, but it is difficult to create your own layouts and work with them. I'll wait for Pages 2.0. Rating: - pissed offbought the program in good faith,cannot use the program because it will not accept the serial number that came with it. contacted apple and was given wrong info to correct the problem. still not able able to do the work i got it for ...please help :( Rating: - No Spreadsheet?!Give me a break. I can "work" with this application about as well as I can fly on a bicycle. When they have a spreadsheet this may be the real deal. Until then, positive reviews are really the cheerleading of biased MAC evangelicals. That said, the potential with OS X is huge if Apple can deliver the software with hard-core productivity apps.
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