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Chapter 1: Starting Out with iWork ’09
more tables (traditional spreadsheets), zero or more charts, as well as other
iWork objects, such as graphics, text boxes, movies, and audio. In Figure 1-3,
the sheet is shown with a table, a chart, and a picture.
Figure 1-3:
Numbers is
more than a
spreadsheet
application.
A comment is attached to the table. All iWork applications support comments,
although each has its own method of displaying them. Sometimes they look
like those colored notes you stick on memos and refrigerator doors.
Keynote
It’s only been a few thousand years since people starting giving presenta-
tions. Call them lectures, classes, sermons, or sales pitches, they’re all pretty
much the same: Someone stands in front of a large or small group of people
and explains, teaches, or informs them. Sometimes, the presentation has mul-
timedia elements: slides in an architecture class, music in a history lecture
about a composer, and movies in a talk about “My Summer Vacation.”
The Keynote authoring and presentation tools are unsurpassed, but it
doesn’t stop there. Take a look at Figure 1-4 to see the variety of export for-
mats available in Keynote. When you’re preparing a Keynote presentation,
you’re simultaneously authoring a QuickTime movie, a Flash animation,
HTML, or even a DVD. All you have to do is click one extra button to start the
export process.