Introduction

Your Mac is a wonderful productivity tool as well as the best multimedia machine around. The iWork suite of applications lets you create slick and professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations quickly and with minimal effort, and share them easily in person, on paper, or via the Internet.

iWork '09 Portable Genius shows you how to get the most out of the iWork applications. Here's a taste of what you can do with this book:

  • Get up to speed on all core iWork skills. Make sure you know all the essential maneuvers you can use in any of the iWork applications — everything from customizing the toolbar and choosing shared preferences to inserting images and sounds, charts, and other objects in your documents, protecting them with passwords, and sharing them via Apple's iWork.com online service. However well you type, don't miss out on any of the time-saving ways of entering text.

  • Create professional-quality documents in Pages. Set up the Pages window so that you can build your word-processing documents and page-layout documents fast and smoothly. Control the page layout, bring in text from outside sources, and learn how to deal with problems when exchanging documents with Microsoft Word. Format your documents quickly and consistently with styles, and make creating new documents a snap by saving your own custom templates.

  • Review and share your Pages documents. When you need to work with colleagues to finalize a document, use the Track Changes feature to manage their editing ...

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