Apple iWork '06 Family Pack (Mac DVD) [OLDER VERSION]

by Apple

Product Features

• Pages 2 includes mail merge, auto-correction, and new Page Thumbnails and Search views.
• Keynote 3 features stunning new animation effects, a Light Table view, and tools to help you rehearse, present, and publish with ease.
• Create eyecatching three-dimensional charts, tables with calculations, freeform shapes and photo masks, and more.
• The powerful new features in iWork ‘06 make it easy to get just the look you want.
• Create beautiful documents and cinema-quality presentations in minutes with iWork ’06, including Pages 2 and Keynote 3.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0008GLGEA
• Item model number: MA224Z/A
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 10, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,920 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #45 in Software > Graphics > Image Capture

Product Description

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iWork '06 features two powerful applications for creating everything from school newsletters to business presentations. With Pages 2, you can quickly create a wide variety of stunning documents. With Keynote 3, you can produce cinema-quality presentations, storyboards, and more. iWork '06 lets you express yourself with style.

The Family Pack lets you install iWork '06 on up to five Apple computers in your household.

Pages 2 helps you create stunning documents quickly and easily.

Choose from beautiful document templates.

Reviewer comments make it easy to collaborate.

Pages 2
Introducing Pages 2. Thanks to new text and image editing tools, it's the easiest way to look good in print. Use Apple-designed templates to build stunning documents in minutes. Quickly add photos with the built-in iLife Media Browser. Format your text in minutes with elegant predefined styles. Add punch to your page with multiple columns, self-calculating tables, and engaging 3D charts.

Add modern design -- Start with a template in Pages 2 and your document is halfway to gorgeous. Choose from 25 new templates, including posters, flyers, scrapbooks, folding cards, technical reports, business invoices, proposals, screenplays, and storyboards.

Top the charts -- Pages 2 lets you add beautifully designed 3D charts to any document. Edit your chart, then position it perfectly using the 3D rotation wheel. From there, you can add even more depth and realism by applying multiple lighting styles, angles, reflections, and shadows.

Get in shape -- Explore your options with curves, shapes, and masks in Pages 2. Choose from new shapes, insert the one you like best, then customize it by adding points or sides. You can even create custom shapes using new Bezier curves. When you're done creating the perfect shape, you can use it to mask any photo in your document.

Put it on the table -- Leave it to Pages 2 to make mere tables more interesting. Add text, graphics, and photos to tables, then get ready to do the math: tables in Pages 2 let you perform spreadsheet-style calculations without ever leaving your document -- a perfect solution for adding numbers late in the game.

Sign, seal, deliver -- Never again fear the mail merge. Pages 2 boasts seamless integration with Mac OS X Address Book, so creating personalized documents for individuals or groups is suddenly simple. Stationery templates offer predefined Address Book links: all you do is drag in contacts and Pages automatically personalizes your documents to match.

Thank you, notes -- With new reviewer comments in Pages 2, you can take notes. Type reminders, to-dos, or revision notes right on your document. Every comment you make appears in a handy sidebar that won't affect layout or pagination. Plus, you can easily hide comments so they won't clutter up your document and keep you from the important business of writing, editing, and printing.

Keynote 3 offers the easiest way to create stunning presentations.

Choose from beautiful presentation templates.

Wow your audience with beautiful transitions and effects.

Keynote 3
Grab and hold your audience's attention with Keynote 3, the latest generation of Apple's stunning presentation software. Perhaps you'd like to make a business proposal. Highlight the quarter's results for investors. Dazzle viewers with your photos of the southwest. Whatever your story, make it into an exquisite presentation with laser-sharp graphics.

Captivate any audience -- Transitions and effects in Keynote 3 help you build cinema-quality presentations. New transitions give you more choices for transporting your audience from slide to slide, flexible text animation puts your words in the spotlight, and interleaved builds offer additional options for every element in your slides.

Enjoy variations on a theme -- Themes in Keynote 3 include everything you need to maintain a consistent look and feel throughout your presentation. Keynote 3 offers eye-popping new HD themes ideal for high-definition displays (1920x1080 resolution), as well as new themes for standard-definition displays. Plus, themes now include a coordinated set of textures and colors designed for 3D charts, and master slides with bulleted text in multiple columns.

Shape your slides -- Add some artistic influence to your presentation, thanks to 10 different shapes in Keynote 3. Choose from stars and polygons, then customize your shapes by adding points and sides. And if you can't find the perfect shape, new Bezier curves let you personalize existing shapes or create your own from scratch. When you're done shaping up, you can easily mask a photo using any standard or custom shape.

You can compute -- With room for text, graphics, and photos, tables in Keynote 3 let you perform simple, spreadsheet-style calculations without leaving your slide. That means you can change your presentation on a dime -- even if final data arrives late.

Duly noted -- Note to self: let Keynote 3 help you organize your thoughts with new reviewer comments. Leave yourself presentation pointers, jot down a list or two, even incorporate feedback from rehearsals. These handy comments behave like sticky notes, so they're easy to write, edit, and move around on your slides. Plus, they disappear in presentation mode, keeping everything clutter-free.

iWork '06 Family Pack Information
The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By "household" Apple means a person or persons sharing the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium. This license does not extend to students who reside at a separate on-campus location or to business or commercial users.

Product Description

Create beautiful documents and cinema-quality presentations in minutes with iWork ’06, including Pages 2 and Keynote 3. Choose an Apple-designed template, then add your own text, charts, tables, shapes, and iLife photos, movies, and music. Create eyecatching three-dimensional charts, tables with calculations, freeform shapes and photo masks, and more. Pages 2 includes mail merge, auto-correction, and new Page Thumbnails and Search views. Keynote 3 features stunning new animation effects, a Light Table view, and tools to help you rehearse, present, and publish with ease. The powerful new features in iWork ‘06 make it easy to get just the look you want.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Feature vs. Price, November 4, 2006

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Waleed A. Alzuhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple iWork '06 Family Pack (Mac DVD) [OLDER VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I have a PowerBook, an iMac, and an eMac at home that are used in different ways. The kids use the eMac for school work, and my wife & I use the other 2 Macs for home business.

Although most school work was required in MS-PowerPoint or MS-Word, exporting from iWork '06 Pages and Keynote was very simple to do with 90-95% accuracy. Our kids said they just do minor editing at school before submitting the work.

For home business, we use Pages to do our proposals, bills, and receipts. And use Keynote for presentations. One thing that I thought was amazing, is the fact that I can display the notes and the succeeding slide on my PowerBook, while projecting just the current slide for the customer to see.

For the price of the Family Pack, we were licensed to use iWork '06 on 5 Macs on the same network. The cost fitted our budget perfectly. The only thing I wish was available in Keynote was timed transition (example: after 3 seconds show bullet#1, after 5 seconds show bullet#2, after 2 seconds show the chart)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars New iMac User, January 11, 2007

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D. Williams (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple iWork '06 Family Pack (Mac DVD) [OLDER VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I got the iWork software after buying my new iMac 24 and was excited to learn how to use the word processing program with all of it's graphics capabilities. I even subscribed to Lynda dot com training for a month to learn all of the program's capabilities. I have not used the presentations software program yet but the word processing was extremely frustrating to a person who has spent the past 15 years using WordPerfect and Microsoft Word for word processing. I prefer to be able to set up short cuts with icons and I found it extremely confusing trying to learn how to combine graphics boxes, etc., etc., with my word processing docs. And that's really what attracted me to the iMac in the first place! Even after going through the professional on-line training I still can't get around inside the program and function effectively. After several frustrating days of working at it I purchased and installed the new "Parallels" program on my iMac along with a full-priced new version of Microsoft XP and reinstalled my do-able windows programs on my new iMac. So far, buying iWork was a mistake for me and combined with having to purchase Parallels and a $200 Windows XP, an expensive one. I love the screen colors and hd resolution on my iMac but found the Pages program to be too confusing for me utilize as a researcher/writer. I needed to be able to customize the way my documents look with adjustments that are not part of Pages. If your documents are for school or are fairly simple and you can figure out how Apple combines graphics with word processing, maybe it will work for you and it will be cheaper than getting the windows programs. Pages comes with dozens of ready-made templates which look great but as soon as you try to change the way they look confusion sets in, at least it did for me.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars iWork 06 is Powerful but Limited, March 13, 2006

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The Dave 3000 "td3k" (Arlington, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple iWork '06 Family Pack (Mac DVD) [OLDER VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

Apple's iWork software presents two applications: Pages and Keynote which is Apple's answer to Microsoft's Publisher and Power Point. As someone who has used both, I can honestly say that iWork blows Publisher and Power Point clean out of the water. Keynote has some added features such as 3D graphs and the capaibility to add numbers in charts (like a very limited spread sheet) added in this version. You can make truly professional looking mind blowing presentations with Keynote that will make any presentation look like a multimedia jewel. Pages allows you to do desktop publishing and print media with the finesse and end results of professional looking print catalogs and brochures. Both applications are well designed and, just like all of the iLife apps, feature the classic Apple interface whereby all of your media content is available and intermeshed into the work flow. There is not really any new earth shattering features in 06 from the 05 version, but mainly just tweaks and enhancements.

By far, the biggest disappointment is in the lack of upgrade pricing availability for users of the previous versions. You will have to pay full price even if you bought iWork '05. The family pack version for $99 is a really good buy as you get five licensed copies versus the single user copy which only gives you one installation for $79. The family pack is definitely the way to go especially if you need to install to more than one Mac. This is an excellent product that works really tight. I only give four stars for no upgrade pricing and for no new applications bundled with the package. If you need to do slide show presentations in front of a group, then the purchase price is worth the cost of Keynote alone. It really rocks.