iWork is a suite of office applications developed by Apple for its OS X and iOS operating systems. The desktop version currently includes Pages (a word processor), Numbers (a spreadsheet application) and Keynote (a presentation application).
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Mac: command line to convert pages document opened in Preview to PDF
Considering that there is no iWork installed and there is no "Preview.pdf" in the pages file package, how do I:
convert the pages document to PDF from command line?
I can open the pages document ...
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Numbers is no longer shipped with OSX from Mountain Lion?
I heave heard that Mac OSX Snow Leopard shipped with Numbers, an app used to manipulate spreadsheets. But I can't find it inside my default Mac OSX Mountain Lion installation. Checking with App Store, ...
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Why does Pages.app connect to a server through https and keep the connection open?
Every time i start up the program Pages (iWork) it connects to a server through https. What is going on? Why would Apple do this? I use no features under Pages that could warrant this behaviour.
It ...
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Set the OS X clipboard to a rich text link in a Ruby or shell script
I'm trying to generate a report by using a Ruby script to parse an XML document. I'm pulling link text and the actual URL and I'd like to be able to format those in a way that I could simply ...
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How do I convert a Keynote presentation recording video into a YouTube-able format?
I've created a presentation using Keynote '08 from Apple's iWork. I recorded an audio voiceover and exported a .mov file. However, since I recorded the audio in multiple takes, Keynote exports the ...
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Not showing negative results in Numbers.app
How can I make iWork Numbers not show me negative results?
For example: The thing is that in A1 I have number 101 and I am doing -A1 from B1. B1 is empty (because I am waiting for the result) so in ...
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My Numbers Spreadsheet does not show any data
My Numbers spreadsheet shows blank even though it has data in it.
What could be wrong?
Please see attached image.
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Open source alternatives to iWork
After I spent few days getting familiar with usability and interface design field, I've got a question.
Apple was the initial leader in GUI design research, and today most Mac users use OS X, ...
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Mac iWork Pages: How can I create internal links?
Mac iWork Pages: How can I create internal links?
I mean, such as one word, as a link, it can lead me go to other page which I set before. (All in one .pages file)
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iWork '09 collection of shapes as single movable object
Is is possible to create a kind of shape-'group' in pages, which allows you to maintain and/or drag an image consisting of multiple shapes?
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Move footnote in Pages 09?
Is it possible to move all of my footnotes to the end of my document in Pages '09? I want to have a reference at the end of my document, like a bibliography.
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Is there any software available for viewing .Pages Extension?
I'm using Windows and Mac for a few work projects and I want to view iWork files in Windows.
Is there any anything viewer or software available for viewing files with a .pages extension?
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Apple Numbers: keyboard shortcut for “smart fill”?
If I've got some sort of patterned data selected — say sequential numbers — I can click and drag the little circle in the bottom right corner of that selection to “smart fill”. For example:
Is ...
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How to unlock template elements in iWork Pages to edit them?
I'm using one of those nice default templates. But for some reason, some of the elements can't be moved around. They don't have those square boxes that can be dragged to change size. The squares ...
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Canadian English on Apple products
Apple is an American company. As many of you probably know, Canadian English is different from American English, and closer to British English (e.g. colour instead of color). I use iWork and Microsoft ...
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Prevent breaking of specified part of paragraph
For example, we have a paragraph:
Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
How can i prevent breaking the part "the lazy" ?
I means, that this string will be incorrect in my formatting:
Quick ...
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Refer to the same footnote multiple times in Pages '09
I would like to refer to the same footnote multiple times in Pages '09.
What it does now, is create a new (identical except for the little number) footnote. So I have three or four identical ...
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How to interchange a column and row in a table (Transpose) in iWork Numbers?
I want to transpose a table (interchange rows to columns and vice versa). How to do that in iWork Numbers.
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Adding more than 8 images on one slide in keynote
I'm making a poster size slide on keynote.
I cannot insert more than 8 images on one slide. When I do, i get this error:
The file wasn’t added to the slide because the slide is full.
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Can I change the default font size in Keynote
When I insert new text (insert textbox) or when I type in a presenter note, the default font size is 18. Can I change the default to 24? (I know about master slides but since text boxes and presenter ...
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Why does a PDF printed in iWork Pages 09 look crappy in Adobe Reader?
I use Snow Leopard at home and work and recently realized that the documents I create in iWork Pages 09 don't look good in Adobe Reader. I go about creating a regular document and 'Print' -> Save as ...
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iWork '09 Keynote: is there is straightforward way to 'dim' and 'highlight' each item in a bullet list?
I have a bullet list on a slide:
first item
second item
third item
What I want to do is show those three bulleted items in a sequence like this:
first bullet appears
first bullet dims
second ...
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Making an index in Apple iWork Pages
Is it possible to make an index in an IWork Pages document?
By index I mean marking words as index worthy and at the end of the document having an alphabetical list of those words and the pages where ...
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Select each nth row in Numbers
I have an iWork Numbers spreadsheet with thousands of rows. How can I select every 5th row from that spreadsheet?
See also: Select each nth row in Excel
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Why does the box version of iWork '09 ask me to enter a serial number?
I have just purchased an iWork '09 box. After the installation, I tried to open Keynote but instead a popup appears asking me to enter a serial number. But the serial number is nowhere to be found on ...
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Opening iWork Pages documents in Textedit
I have a Pages (iWork '08) document I'd like to work on on my laptop, but my laptop doesn't have iWork. When I try to open the document, it turns out to actually be a folder with several things ...
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How to install iWork '09 onto an external volume?
I want to install iWork '09 onto an external volume but the installer doesn't allow that. Most Mac applications don't really care where you install them, but some from Apple, like iWork, is especially ...
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How to make numbered chapter titles and paragraph headers in iWork Pages 09?
For most of my document writing I use iWork Pages (from iWork '09), and it's usually fine for me. I don't miss Microsoft Word, except for one simple feature: the ability to number chapter titles and ...
