![]() Unlike an Excel spreadsheet-essentially a grid with formulas in each cell-a Numbers document is a canvas that contains a many or as few tables, charts, graphics, text, or almost anything else as you care to add, in a layout that’s easy to tweak,” Mendelson reports. “Thanks to the graphics-canvas architecture of iWork, Numbers is the most significant new idea in spreadsheets in two decades. Apple’s suite can import Microsoft Office documents, including those created in Office 2007, and can export to the Office 97-2003 format, which Office 2007 can read,” Edward Mendelson reports for PC Magazine. ![]() Unlike the freeware and NeoOffice, iWork isn’t an Office clone but a true alternative to Office-a graphics-centric suite in which all three programs are built on the same foundation, and all three are essentially graphics applications in which you position objects such as text, spreadsheet tables, and presentation slides on a drawing canvas. A brand-new spreadsheet program called Numbers joins new versions of the Pages word-processor and Keynote presentation package to create a low-priced alternative to the trio of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. ![]() ![]() “With iWork ’08, Apple finally offers a software suite that presents Microsoft Office with a serious challenge for dominance on the Macintosh desktop.
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