Apple Updates iWork Apps for iPad

ByMike Moffit

Yesterday, Apple rolled out updates to their series of mobile iWork apps via the App Store. The collective updates bring many new features to the apps, along with significant bug fixes. According to iTunes, the following features are new in Version 1.2.

Pages:

New Features:

  • Copy documents between Pages and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
  • Option to display the word count for your document.
  • Support for opening .txt files from Mail.
  • Ability to group and ungroup objects.
  • Import and export existing footnotes, endnotes, sections and tables of contents.
  • Import and export Pages ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.

Numbers:

New Features:

  • Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel (.XLS) format.
  • Copy spreadsheets between Numbers and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
  • Ability to group and ungroup objects.
  • Open CSV files from Mail and other apps.
  • Import and export Numbers ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.

Keynote:

New Features:

  • Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format.
  • Copy presentations between Keynote and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
  • Support for audio in builds when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.
  • Ability to group and ungroup objects.
  • Add animated builds to grouped objects.
  • Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations.
  • Revolving Door, Swoosh and Wipe slide transition animations.

Bug Fixes:

  • Improved export of tables with customized boarders.
  • Improved font matching when importing documents and spreadsheets.
  • Improved creation and editing of hyperlinks.
  • Improved text options for tables including font, size and color settings for individual cells.
  • Improved usability and reliability when when sharing via iWork.com public beta.
  • Improved reliability when importing documents with large images.
  • Improved reliability when importing and exporting documents with overlapping objects.
  • Improved handling of fonts when exporting documents.
  • Improved reliability and performance when importing.

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