Keynote is the presentation tool, with a lot of templates, transitions, and effects available. Pages is the word-processing component and it provides enough power to satisfy most people, even to the point of being able to provide publication-ready content. There are a number of nice features that users will like and that are easier to access and deploy than the equivalent in Office, but there are also some more-advanced features that are missing. iWork 09 is much simpler system to than Office, which may be an advantage for some and a drawback for others.Īll the component parts of iWork 09 have been designed to be simple to use (or at least simpler than Office). iWork 09 is compatible with Office in that files from one can be opened and updated with the other, but there's a difference in complexity between the two products. It includes word processing, spreadsheet, and slide presentation applications in one collection of integrated tools. IWork 09 is Apple's competitor to Microsoft Office.
