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   Pages 5.6, Numbers 3.6, and Keynote 6.6 for Mac

   Agen G. N. Schmitz

   Apple has updated its trio of iWork apps for the Mac ' [1]Pages 5.6,
   [2]Numbers 3.6, and [3]Keynote 6.6 ' with some hefty improvements.
   Collectively, the three productivity apps now support Split View in OS
   X 10.11 El Capitan, provide haptic feedback when you force-click an
   image when using a Force Touch trackpad, add support for opening iWork
   '08 and '06 documents, enable you to preview documents on iOS and
   Android browsers, improve access to recently used fonts in the Fonts
   menu, add the capability to create table, chart, and shape styles from
   an image, and provide enhanced support for OpenType font features such
   as small caps, contextual fractions, alternative glyphs, and more.

   The three apps bring several VoiceOver enhancements, including the
   capability to add and review comments, plus edit chart data and chart
   elements. Pages also enables you to track changes using VoiceOver,
   while Keynote adds support for reading presenter notes during
   slideshows. The triumvirate also improve support for exporting to their
   Microsoft Office brethren (and Pages gets improved EPUB export),
   improve compatibility for charts, text overflows, and non-rectangular
   masks imported from Microsoft Office, and receive additional
   AppleScript options for PDF export.

   Additionally, the iOS and [4]iCloud versions of the productivity apps
   have been updated with many of the same features noted above (though 3D
   Touch replaces Force Touch for the iOS versions of [5]Pages,
   [6]Numbers, and [7]Keynote). The updates to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
   for both OS X and iOS are free.

   Speaking of iCloud, Michael Cohen (author of [8]Take Control of Pages)
   was excited to find that Pages for iCloud now lets you view tracked
   changes in a document that has change tracking turned on. However, he
   was let down after realizing that it is truly view only. In fact, if a
   document has any tracked changes from Pages for Mac or iOS, Pages for
   iCloud won't allow you to edit the document at all. ($19.99 new for
   [9]Pages, 224 MB; $19.99 new for [10]Numbers, 166 MB; $19.99 new for
   [11]Keynbote, 456 MB; all three require 10.10.4+)

References

   1. http://www.apple.com/mac/pages/
   2. http://www.apple.com/mac/numbers/
   3. http://www.apple.com/mac/keynote/
   4. http://www.apple.com/iwork-for-icloud/
   5. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id361309726?mt=8&at=10l5PW
   6. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/numbers/id361304891?mt=8&at=10l5PW
   7. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keynote/id361285480?mt=8&at=10l5PW
   8. https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/pages
   9. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id409201541?mt=12&at=10l5PW
  10. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/numbers/id409203825?mt=12&at=10l5PW
  11. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keynote/id409183694?mt=12&at=10l5PW

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