On Nov 8, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Jim Bennett wrote:

> I just heard today on Mac OS "Ken" podcast (11-8-13) that Apple will be 
> updating the new iWork to restore some features that were temporarily lost in 
> the initial release. Hope this includes the features you complained about.

Apple announced this last week. I appended their note below. The problem I have 
with all this is that they're trying to make the iWork programs almost 
feature-identical on iOS and Mac OS X. I don’t  want my Mac programs dumbed 
down to the iOS interface. For serious work, I find a Mac to be far faster and 
easier.

About the new iWork for Mac: Features and compatibility
Learn about the new iWork for Mac.


The new iWork applications—Pages, Numbers, and Keynote—were released for Mac on 
October 22nd. These applications were rewritten from the ground up to be fully 
64-bit and to support a unified file format between OS X and iOS 7 versions, as 
well as iWork for iCloud beta.

These apps feature an all-new design with an intelligent format panel and many 
new features such as easy ways to share documents, Apple-designed styles for 
objects, interactive charts, new templates, and new animations in Keynote.

In rewriting these applications, some features from iWork ’09 were not 
available for the initial release. We plan to reintroduce some of these 
features in the next few releases and will continue to add brand new features 
on an ongoing basis.

Some features in upcoming releases in the next 6 months

Pages

Customize toolbar
Vertical ruler
Improved alignment guides
Improved object placement
Import of cells with images
Improved word counts
Keyboard shortcuts for styles
Manage pages and sections from the thumbnail view

Numbers
Customize toolbar
Improvements to zoom and window placement
Multi-column and range sort
Auto-complete text in cells
Page headers and footers
Improvements to AppleScript support

Keynote
Customize toolbar
Restoring old transitions and builds
Improvements to presenter display
Improvements to AppleScript support
In the meanwhile, you can continue to use these features by accessing the 
previous versions of the iWork applications which remain installed on your Mac. 
The previous versions can be found in Applications > iWork ’09.

Reverting documents created in the new iWork for Mac applications to the 
previous version’s file format

New or existing documents you open in the new versions of Pages, Numbers, and 
Keynote use the new unified file format. These files can’t be opened in the 
previous versions of the iWork applications. To revert the document file format 
to the previous version, you can do one of the following:

Documents that you haven't edited can be reverted to the iWork ’09 version by 
selecting File > Revert To.
If you have edited the document and want to preserve the edits, you can save it 
as an iWork ’09 document by selecting File > Export To, then choosing Pages 
’09, Numbers ’09, or Keynote ’09. 
EndNote Compatibility

For information about using EndNote with Pages 5.0 and later, see About the 
Pages for Mac EndNote plug-in.

Additional Information

For more information about importing and exporting iWork ’09 documents, click 
here.

For iWork for Mac help, click here. And to provide feedback, click here.

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