Review: Apple’s iWork brings simplicity to docs

Published March 5, 2014 7:22pm ET



BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Microsoft’s Office is the go-to software package for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Google’s Docs has emerged as a good, free alternative for lightweight tasks. But what’s often overlooked is Apple’s iWork.

Last fall, the iWork applications for the Mac —Pages for word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for presentations— got their first major update since 2009 and now work better with iPhone and iPad versions. Apple also developed an online version that can work on Windows computers and let several people collaborate on a single document more easily.

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