iWork ‘08-Numbers Review
iWork has been growing in popularity. iWork ‘08 isn’t one giant program as some may think; iWork is composed of three comprehensive applications -Keynote ‘08, Pages ‘08, and Numbers ‘08. These applications are designed to help you and your diligent lifestyle, and they do so with Apple style-beauty and simplicity. This is the last part of my review on the Numbers application for iWork ‘08.
I am not a big fan of the Numbers application for iWork, but it is great for those who use Speadsheets often. Having used Numbers before for a college project, I was somewhat familiar with the uses and features of the program. Making a formula is simple. Table references can be words, not confusing cell locations like A2:A16. If you want to work out the sum of a set of numbers. You simply highlight the numbers, and then look to the bottom corner of the app. It tells you the sum, average, min, max, and count. Then, merely drag to a cell and it’s done. Put simply, it is spreadsheets without being a Mathematician, which is great for when I ever want to use this program because I loathe math.
There are also templates, which are easy to customize, and make things much quicker if you can fit your project into one of the templates. There is everything from team organization to vacation planning to more business related uses such as expense reports or invoices. Excel import and export is as easy as you would expect, and integration with other OS X apps is also there - for example, you can use Address Book contacts in your tables, which was a neat feature to use.
Check it out, play with it for an hour if you can and you begin to understand what a great application this really is. Like I said, spreadsheets are not too much of my thing, but I would choose Numbers over Excel any day. This application is phenomenal. This concludes my 3-part review of iWork ‘08. Each program is amazing in its own Apply-style way and I would recommend it to any. To work with it yourself, I recommend you try the 30-day trial of the whole iWork application suite.
