iWork '09: Pages

ByMike Moffit

Pages received a bunch of updates this time around, most notably:

  • 40 new Apple-designed templates (for over 180 total).
  • A new full-screen view option so that you can focus only on your writing!
  • Dynamic outlines allow you to organize your ideas as they come.
  • Mail merge with Numbers makes adding addresses, names and more really simple.
  • MathType 6 and EndNote X2 (both sold separately) integration allows you to insert equations or bibliographies (respectively).

As always, you can open, save, and email Microsoft Word files from within Pages.

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