iWork by apple

Apple Productivity Apps, formerly and commonly known as iWork, is an office

suite of applications created by Apple Inc. for its OS X and iOS operating systems,
and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website.

It includes Keynote, a presentation program; the word processing and desktop

publishing application Pages;[1][4] and the spreadsheet application Numbers.[5

Pages

Main article: Pages (word processor)

Pages is a word processing application. The latest edition is Pages 5.6, released in
October 2015.

Besides basic word processing functionality, Pages includes templates designed by

Apple to allow users to create various types of documents, including newsletters,
invitations, stationery, and rsums, along with a number of education-themed
templates for students and teachers, such as reports and outlines.[1][5] Pages 5, a
complete redesign, removed more than 100of the features of Pages 4.x, including
bookmarks, mail merge, linked text boxes, multiple section capability, ability to set
default zoom. It has been slowly adding some back in subsequent 5.x releases
(default zoom, for example, can now be set, but still no linked text boxes, multiple
select, mail merge, book marks, and more than 90 other features that were present
in version 4.3).

Along with Keynote and Numbers, Pages integrates with Apple's iLife suite. Using
the Media Browser, users can drag and drop movies, photos and music directly into
documents within the Pages application.[1] A Full Screen view hides the menubar
and toolbars, and an outline mode allows users to quickly create outlines which can
easily be rearranged by dragging and dropping, as well as collapsed and expanded.
Pages includes support for entering complex equations with MathType 6 and for
reference citing using EndNote X2.[15]

The Pages application can open and edit Microsoft Word documents (including
DOC and Office Open XML files), and plain text documents.[25] Pages 5 can no
longer read or export rich text format documents. Pages can also export documents
in the DOC, PDF, and ePub formats.[14] It cannot read or write OpenDocument file
formats.

As a word-processing application targeted towards creating attractive documents

for a range of applications such as lesson plans and newsletters, Pages competes
with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher (never ported to OS X), Apple's own
free e-book and PDF authoring application, iBooks Author, and Adobe's
professional-market desktop publishing application InDesign.

iWork.com

iWork.com

Web address iwork.com

Free while in beta; requires

Commercial?
iWork '09[26]

Registration Required (Apple ID)

Available in Multilingual

Owner Apple Inc.

Launched January 6, 2009

Alexa rank 3,565,463 (April 2014)[27]

Current status Discontinued July 31, 2012

iWork.com was a free service that enabled users to share iWork '09 documents
online directly from within Pages, Keynote and Numbers. Users could click the
iWork.com toolbar icon and login using their Apple ID to upload a document and
invite others to view it online. Viewers could leave comments and notes on the
document and download a copy in iWork, Microsoft Office, or PDF formats.
Document owners could track comments at the iWork.com website.

It was released as a public beta on January 6, 2009 at the Macworld Conference &
Expo. The iWork.com service provides a web interface for viewing, downloading,
and commenting uploaded documents. In contrast to cloud-based office
applications such as Google Docs and Windows Live Office, it does not offer
editing.[26]

iWork.com supports uploading of Pages '09 documents, Keynote '09 presentations,

and Numbers '09 spreadsheets.[28] Users can download documents in both
Microsoft Office and PDF formats, in addition to their native iWork formats.[28]
Uploading documents to iWork.com requires a copy of the iWork '09 software
suite and an Apple ID. Viewing, commenting, and downloading require only a web
browser and an invitation to view the document.

Apple announced that after July 31, 2012, users will be no longer able to publish
new documents to iWork.com from any iWork application. Documents stored on
iWork.com will not be available to download or view after the shut down date.
Instead, users can use iCloud to share documents between their computers (running
OS X Mountain Lion) and their iOS devices. Users attempting to access the
iWork.com site are re-directed to the Apple homepage.

iWork for iCloud

Main article: ICloud iWork for iCloud

During the 2013 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote

speech, iWork for iCloud was announced for release at the same time as the next
version of the app versions of iWork later in the year. The three apps for both iOS
and OS X that form Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), will be
made available on a web interface (named as Pages for iCloud, Numbers for
iCloud, and Keynote for iCloud respectively), and accessed via the iCloud website
under each users iCloud Apple ID login. They will also sync with the users iOS
and OS X versions of the app, should they have them, again via their iCloud Apple
ID.

This allows the user to edit and create documents on the web, using one of the
supported browsers; currently Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. It also means
that Microsoft Windows users now have access to these native previously only
Apple device document editing tools, via the web interface. iWork for iCloud has
somewhat limited functionality compared to the OS X version. For instance, the
fonts available are more limited and the web version doesn't fully support printing
and may display documents created with the support of external plug-ins
incorrectly/improperly. iWork for iCloud update adds 8 languages, 50 new fonts
and improved editing in the cloud-based versions of Pages, Numbers and
Keynote.[29][30]

google docs by google

Google Docs is Google's "software as a service" office suite. Documents,

spreadsheets, presentations can be created with Google Docs, imported through the
web interface, or sent via email. Documents are automatically saved to Google's
servers, and a revision history is automatically kept so past edits may be viewed
(although this only works for adjacent revisions). In the Google Chrome browser,
the contents of the user's Google Drive are downloaded to the computer so that
documents may be edited offline.[37] Documents can also be exported to a user's
local computer in a variety of formats (ODF, HTML, PDF, RTF, Text, Office
Open XML). Documents can be tagged and archived for organizational purposes.
The service is officially supported on recent versions of the Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Safari and Chrome browsers running on Microsoft Windows, Apple OS
X, and Linux operating systems.[38]

Google Docs serves as a collaborative tool for editing documents in real time.
Documents can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users simultaneously and
users are able to see character-by-character changes as other collaborators make
edits. Users cannot be notified of changes, but the application can notify users
when a comment or discussion is made or replied to, facilitating collaboration.
There is no way to highlight changes made by a particular editor in real time
during a writing session, nor a way to jump to the changes made. However, an
editor's current position is represented with an editor-specific color/cursor, so if
another editor happens to be viewing that part of the document they can see edits
as they occur. A sidebar chat functionality allows editors to discuss edits. Also, the
revision history included in the service allows users to see the additions made to a
document, with each author distinguished by color, but the entire document must
be manually searched to find these changes. The revision history feature only
displays one edit at a time, i.e. only adjacent revisions can be compared, and users
cannot control how frequently revisions are saved. A new collaborative feature
introduced in June 2014 allows any user with commenting access to make edit
suggestions. However, this feature is currently available only for documents.[21][39]

The application supports opening and exporting two ISO standard document
formats: OpenDocument and Office Open XML. It also includes support for
viewing proprietary formats such as .doc and .xls.[40]

Google Docs is one of many cloud computing document-sharing services.[41] The

majority of document-sharing services require user fees. (Google Docs is free for
individuals, but has fees for business starting at $5/month.)[42] Its popularity
amongst businesses is growing due to enhanced sharing features and accessibility.
In addition, Google Docs has enjoyed a rapid rise in popularity among students and
educational institutions.[43]

In September 2009, an equation editor was added which supports the LaTeX
format; however, Google Docs lacks an equation numbering feature.[44][45]

A simple find and replace tool is available; there was no ability to do the search in
a reverse direction in the original release, but a later version allowed reverse search
and reverse replace.[citation needed]

Google Docs includes a web clipboard tool that allows users to copy and paste
content between Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings. The
web clipboard can also be used for copying and pasting content between different
computers. Copied items are stored on Google's servers for up to 30 days. For most
copying and pasting, Google Docs also supports keyboard shortcuts.[46]

Google offers an extension for Google Chrome Office editing for Docs, Sheets and
Slides that enables users to view and edit Microsoft Office documents on Google
Chrome, via the Docs, Sheets and Slides apps. The extension can be used for
opening Office files stored on the computer using Chrome, as well as for opening
Office files encountered on the web (in the form of email attachments, web search
results, etc.) without having to download them. The extension is installed on
Chrome OS by default.[47]
Google Cloud Connect was a plug-in for Windows Microsoft Office 2003, 2007
and 2010 that could automatically store and synchronize any Microsoft Word
document, PowerPoint presentation, or Excel spreadsheet to Google Docs in
Google Docs or Microsoft Office formats. The online copy is automatically
updated each time the Microsoft Office document is saved. Microsoft Office
documents can be edited offline and synchronized later when online. Google Cloud
Sync maintains previous Microsoft Office document versions and allows multiple
users to collaborate by working on the same document at the same time.[48][49]
However, Google Cloud Connect has been discontinued as of April 30, 2013, as
Google Drive achieves all of the above tasks, with better results.[50]

Google Spreadsheets and Google Sites also incorporate Google Apps Script to
write code within documents in a similar way to Visual Basic for Applications in
Microsoft Office. The scripts can be activated either by user action or by a trigger
in response to an event.[51][52]

Google Forms and Google Drawings have been added to the Google Docs suite.
Google Forms is a tool that allows collecting information from users via a
personalized survey or quiz. The information is then collected and automatically
connected to a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is populated with the survey and quiz
responses.[53][54]

Google Drawings allows users to collaborate creating, sharing, and editing images
or drawings. Google Drawings can be used for creating charts, diagrams, designs,
flow-charts, etc. It contains a subset of the features in Google Slides but with
different templates. Its features include laying out drawings precisely with
alignment guides, snap to grid, auto distribution, and inserting drawings into other
Google documents, spreadsheets, or presentations.[55][56]

On May 15, 2012, a research tool was introd

uced in Google Docs.[57] It allows users to easily access Google Search through a
sidebar while editing a document.[58]

On March 11, 2014, Google introduced add-ons for Google Docs and Sheets which
allow users to use third-party applications installed from the add-on stores to get
additional features within the main services.[33] The add-on store was also made
available to Google Forms in October 2014.[59]
Office online

Office Online (previously Office Web Apps) is an online office suite offered by
Microsoft, which allows users to create and edit files using lightweight, web
browser-based versions of Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
and OneNote. The offering also includes Outlook.com, People, Calendar and
OneDrive, all of which are accessible from a unified app switcher. The on-
premises version of this service called Office Web Apps Server can be installed in
private clouds in conjunction with Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange
Server and Microsoft Lync Server.

Office Online can open and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations in
Office Open XML formats on the web. Starting on July 2013, they can render PDF
documents or convert them to Microsoft Word documents, although the formatting
of the document may deviate from the original.[18] Since November 2013, the apps
have supported real-time co-authoring and autosave Word files.[12][13]

Limitations

Word

Word Online lacks two ribbons that exist in Word 2013: References and Mailings.
Mailing allows you to print envelopes and labels, and manage mail merge printing
of Word documents. References contains features you need for more advanced
documents e.g. table of contents, citations and bibliography, captions, index, and
table of authorities.[19]

Word Online cannot change the orientation of a document or insert section

breaks.[19]

Office add-ins only work in the Word desktop app and are not available in Word
Online.[20]

Other views available in the Word desktop app (Outline, Draft, Web Layout, and
Full Screen Reading) are not available in Word Online. Likewise, the Navigation
pane, side-by-side viewing, and split windows are not available in Word Online.[21]