MacWorld UK Review of iWork ‘08
December 6th, 2007 | by Michael |Neale Monks, writing for MacWorld UK, has written one of the better reviews of iWork, and Numbers in particular, that I have read. He notes the big improvements to Pages and Keynote since the last release, and goes into some depth on the features in Numbers.Here are some highlights:
So who’s Numbers for? Anyone who uses a spreadsheet to perform relatively straightforward calculations such as working out loan repayments or balancing small business accounts. All the standard numerical functions are included, so its not as if Numbers can’t be used for some serious number crunching despite its lack of appeal to the Excel power user. Numbers is also supremely well designed as a tool for storing and presenting tables of data, where calculations are of secondary importance compared with being able to compare values across rows or columns.
If Numbers was merely pretty and easy to use but didn’t actually perform many calculations, its utility would be limited. Fortunately, Numbers is provided with a nice variety of standard formulas, ranging across all the usual statistical, financial, logical, and trigonometric fields. The basic mode of operation is identical to that of Excel, so jumping from the one to the other is easy. But there are some very welcome little tweaks.
Numbers, however, may well redefine how people use spreadsheets. It’s powerful, beautiful, and surprisingly versatile.
You can find the article here.
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