Customer Reviews

Apple Training Series: iWork 06 with iLife 06

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I usually don't write a lot of reviews but I felt I had to for this book. I'm not sure what that other guy was referring to. I recently had a project where I had to rapidly produce a presentation using iWork. I've never used the software before but this book got me up and running immediately. I had no problem following the instructions and was able to apply what I learned to my project right away.

This is a REAL WORLD book for people that have a general knowledge of similar applications. AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME. I impressed the heck out of my client with some simple methods explained by Harrington in the book. The software allows you to do some pretty advanced looking stuff, and this book gives you a real jump-start on how to do it.

If you actually DO the steps in the tutorials without jumping around like crazy, you can be REALLY proficient REALLY quickly.

I went step by step through the book. Harrington gives you a strong foundation and then builds on it. After working through the book, I keep it next to me as a reference.

I've used iWork since the first version but I don't do presentations that often so I never delved into some of the really unique features.

I've used some "training series" books that seemed to be too basic, taking too long to get past introductory things that any person buying the book should already know.

While this book does "hand-hold" the absolute beginner, it also gets right into creating presentations and introducing handy shortcuts.

I've only worked through the first chapter but have already learned things I wished I had know in doing some recent presentations.

Well worth the money!

I have spend the last two days in company with this book and I must say it is was a very fun and learning exercise. The pictures and the instruction are just on time, so You can see for Yourself that you are on the right track.

This is the best hands-on experience I have had so far - it matches the books from LYNDA.COM

Excellent book which guides you step by step trough all the gizmos and secrets of Keynote and Pages. It is easily and nicely written. I often use it as a reference when I forget something. Highly recommended.

I needed to create a presentation for my Senior Seminar at college, and I wanted to take advantage of Keynote's superior media integration abilities, and not be yet another drone with bullet-pointed, standardized PowerPoint slides.

Don't let the thinness of this book deceive you; it contains everything you need to create a media-rich presentation. It covers seamless media importing from iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and even covers the basic functionality of the rest of the iLife and iWork products. Aren't comfortable only having one copy of your presentation? This book explains how to easily burn your presentation to a DVD-player-readable disc in case of an unforeseen projector problem. Any of your corporate buddies stuck with Windows? You'll learn how to export your Keynote presentation to a PowerPoint-ready .PPT file (although you will lose some of the cinema-quality transitions and build effects).

In short, I was very satisfied with what I learned, and thanks to the book can now whip up a Keynote presentation in a couple of minutes that outshines and outclasses others. I didn't have a use for the Pages section, so I cannot attest to that portion of the book, but as far as Keynote goes, this is an excellent manual.

This is a very good but not great book. I am new to this program and that may be a good part of my problem. I am sure that someone who has used the earlier version of this program would have a diferent opinion. As I continue to come back to the book I am certain I will continue to have fewer problems.

The book which is a tutorial, is comprehensive, with a lot of chatter inbetween actual instruction. The book is perhaps too informative, and would be better served if the actual tutorial key strokes were colored or emphasized to stand out clearly from the between line chatter. All in all in all if you use the book chapter by chapter, and read the chapter first you will benefit from the book. There is a lot of tutorial on iphoto. Thus knowledge of i photo prior to using this tutorial will be beneficial.

I am working my way thru KeyNote in IWork'06. While, in my view, the book is clearly written, it takes a lot of time and effort to get a place where you are comfortable working on your own presentation. I am new to KeyNote so this may not be true with others. I would say that I would have been lost with out this book.

Steve April

St. Louis, Mo

This is the worst technical writing I have ever seen. Harrington tells you what to do but doesn't tell you how to do it. That is useless. You wouldn't need the book if you knew how to to it. A lot of the directions just plain don't work. It is very frustrating. I'm surprised it is an Apple Training Series because some of the others are fantastic.