A bit confusing. Google Apps right side of the picture and desktop PowerPoint do this automatically - maybe its just the beta release, but this was a missing feature.
After some digging around, I was able to change the Paragraph Styles to create a title heading and a bulleted list to match the format of a slide in PowerPoint or Google Apps Presentation.
Not too intuitive. With the release of iWork for iCloud, the market for cloud-based business software has expanded. Now, the beta testing represents a small subset of the full features of the product, but open questions remain:. When an employee leaves an organization, what happens to the data residing in or associated with their apps, especially data held in any SaaS-based email account?
Grab this great eBook and learn how to fend off ransomware and keep your organization's data secure and accessible no matter what. Try It Free. Jul 10, G Suite. Keynote for iCloud Some people hate it, some people love it but PowerPoint is the vehicle in which most businesses communicate internally and externally. Summary With the release of iWork for iCloud, the market for cloud-based business software has expanded.
Now, the beta testing represents a small subset of the full features of the product, but open questions remain: Will there be a scripting capability?
Still, because it doesn't require an ongoing subscription, iWork for iCloud is likely to be more affordable in the long term for small businesses on a budget. Office : Office is a subscription-based service, and Microsoft offers a variety of subscription plans for businesses of any size.
The plan offers full access to desktop versions of all Office apps. A Midsize Business plan is also available. Google's productivity suite is free in the truest sense. There are no apps to buy and no subscription options to consider. Users who own both the desktop and mobile versions of any iWork app can transition seamlessly between the two, thanks to iCloud.
If you want to take iWork for iCloud on the go, stick to the iPhone or iPad -- with one notable exception. Because Microsoft's Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2 tablets run on full desktop versions of Windows 8, users can access iCloud via either device's desktop browser. Office : A free mobile version of Microsoft Office is available for Android smartphones and tablets, as well as all Windows Phone devices, though you will still have to purchase a subscription to take advantage of Office cloud connectivity.
Non-subscribers can still use the apps to view and edit documents that were downloaded or transferred manually to their phone or tablet. Owners of one of Microsoft's Surface tablets can also take advantage of Office Microsoft has yet to unveil a version of Office for iPad, but rumors suggest it could be coming soon. Google Docs: Google's Web apps can be accessed on mobile devices in two ways. First, you can view and edit Google Docs files on any Web-connected phone or tablet in your mobile Web browser.
Within the app, you can access your files and create a new document or spreadsheet, though the functionality of these mobile apps is very limited. Office , Google Docs and iWork for iCloud offer much of the same functionality, but each has a unique set of strengths and limitations.
Picking a software package for your business comes down to your budget, hardware compatibility and personal preference. A one-month free trial of Office is available from Microsoft, and Google Docs remains as free and open as the day it launched.
But unless you already own a previous version of iWork, you'll have to purchase the apps outright to try the new iWork for iCloud. Office vs. Anna Attkisson.
All of the iWork for iCloud apps have spacing and centering grids, invoked under the wrench icon. They all insert text boxes and shapes and pictures in the same way: If you learn how to put a table in Pages, for example, the same precise method works in Numbers and Keynote.
Formatting panes, with tabs, on the right are nearly identical in the various apps. Usability, in a word, is excellent, in no small part because the general approach is the same in all of the apps. That coherent design is reflected in the interface itself. However, Apple has built a retaining wall around iCloud, with high partitions in between, and dealing with it can be frustrating.
Instead of doing like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive and offering a simple click-and-drag interface with deep Mac or Windows File Manager integration, iCloud only accepts files through its browser-based interface, and it stuffs them into strictly cordoned off areas for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
If you want to edit a Word document in Pages for iCloud, you have to direct your browser to iCloud, flip to the Pages app, then drag the Word document from your Mac or Windows PC into the landing area inside the browser. If you want to edit a spreadsheet, flip to Numbers, then drag and drop your workbook into the browser. There's no easy way to move a file from one bucket to another, no way to group files by, say, project instead of file type. All of your file manipulation has to take place inside that browser window.
It's frustrating and slow. You can then click on a button to open a PDF, your browser's PDF viewer kicks in, and usually you can print to anything, anywhere. Unlike the other two suites, iWork for iCloud will open password-protected Microsoft Office documents. Even Office Online won't do that. Pages for iCloud For word processing, Pages for iCloud includes more than 60 popular typefaces, similar to Word Online but less than the nearly unlimited number in Google Docs. Predefined paragraph styles can't be modified, but individual paragraphs can be centered or bulleted, and their line spacing before, after, internal can be changed.
You can draw on full find and replace, page numbering, and footnotes, and you can insert fixed-size tables and wrap text within cells and include a wide array of mathematical functions.
In fact, tables inside Pages docs are functionally identical to tables inside spreadsheets -- a remarkable concept, well executed. Text boxes can have paragraph styles and variable alignment, and there's a small number of pre-defined shapes and arrows.
Pictures can be resized and relocated, and you can make use of an extensive array of picture-handling features, including cropping, rotation, shadows, opacity, and even reflections. There's adjustable text wrapping around pictures. Pages will check spelling as you type, but I found that it flagged relatively common technical terms such as "taskbar" as misspelled, and there's no way to train the spell-checker.
Sharing and collaboration are easy, with unique cursors and selection colors for each collaborator and real-time updates of modified elements shown in Figure 1 -- much the same as Word Online and Google Docs. But only iWork supports collaboration among its online, iOS, and OS X apps: If you have the same doc open in Keynote for iCloud and Keynote for the Mac and Keynote for iPad, for example, changes made in any one of the three show up more or less immediately in all the others.
A major iWork update on April 2, introduced a "view only" setting for shared documents, allowing specific users to watch but not change the docs.
At this point, there's no way to view tracked changes or comments, and you can't create hyperlinks in iWork for iCloud documents -- at least not in the usual way. However, hyperlinks will be automatically generated when you type something that looks like a URL. All told, Pages for iCloud has most of the functions most people will need, but many meat-and-potatoes features found in Word Online or Google Docs aren't there. You can't include comments or perform the sorts of page layout tricks you can manage in Word Online.
That said, Pages for iCloud is very easy to use, streamlined, and clutter-free, buoyed by the remarkably consistent interface among all three iWork apps. Numbers for iCloud Numbers for iCloud treats tables much like any other element on a page -- text, graphics, and charts all intermingle with tables. Numbers provides extensive click-to-apply cell formatting, and it shares the same muscular formula editor found in Pages and Keynote for iCloud.
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