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Chapter 1: Starting Out with iWork ’09
Figure 1-6:
Use the
iWork
themes and
templates.
Reusing parts of documents
All iWork applications let you create parts of your documents that you can
reuse. These reusable parts can be
✓ Sections in Pages word processing documents
✓ Pages in Pages page layout documents
✓ Master slides in Keynote
✓ Sheets or tables in Numbers
To break down a project to a manageable size, look for the intermediate size
parts that you can work on. For example, if you’re part of a committee of ten
people working on a 200-page planning document for a company, a commu-
nity, or an event, where do you begin? If you just start writing, you’re likely to
be at the task a long time. Very long. Try to break down the task. What are the
logical components? These will probably become chapters.
If you’re working on a budget for your school, you may soon be looking at
hundreds of rows and hundreds of columns. Use Numbers tables to divide
and conquer. Instead of budgeting expenses for the Language Arts department
in five columns; make Language Arts into its own small table. Numbers makes
it easy to integrate many small tables into a large whole.