iWork '09: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual

by Josh Clark

With iWork '09, Apple's productivity applications have come of age. Unfortunately, their user guides are stuck in infancy. That's where iWork '09: The Missing Manual comes in. This book quickly guides you through everything you need to know about the Pages word-processor, the Numbers spreadsheet, and the Keynote presentation program that Al Gore and Steve Jobs made famous.

Friendly and entertaining, iWork '09: The Missing Manual gives you crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations of iWork's capabilities, its advantages over similar programs -- and its limitations. You'll see these programs through an objective lens that shows you which features work well and which don't. With this book, you will:




Produce stunning documents and cinema-quality digital presentations
Take advantage of Mac OS X's advanced typography and graphics capabilities
Learn how to use the collection of themes and templates included with iWork
Get undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets for each program
Integrate with other iLife programs to use photos, audio, and video clips
Learn why iWork is the topic most requested by Missing Manual fans. One of the few sources available on Apple's incredible suite of programs, iWork '09: The Missing Manual will help you get the best performance out of Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and more in no time.

Genres: Technology

890 pages, ebook

First published April 1, 2009

About the author

Josh Clark is principal of Big Medium, an agency that helps complex organizations design for what’s next. Josh has over 30 years of experience in emerging technology, user experience, and design innovation.

Josh is co-author with Veronika Kindred of Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfacees with AI (Rosenfeld Media, 2026). The book gives designers and product leaders the know-how to create AI-powered interfaces—dashboards that design themselves, apps that manifest on demand, agents that just get it done, and much more.

Josh speaks around the world about digital design and emerging technology. He is author of many books, including Designing for Touch (A Book Apart) and Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (O’Reilly).

Before the internet swallowed him up in the 1990s, Josh was a producer of national PBS television. He shared his three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, interviewed the cabinet secretaries of nine US presidents, and was head writer for a primetime game show. In 1996, Josh created the “Couch-to-5K” (C25K) running program, which has helped millions of skeptical exercisers take up running.

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Missing Manual series seriously rocks over most how-to software manuals I've looked at. This one is no exception. Awesome work to the Mr. Josh Clark and editors. Although I made the switch to Mac in 2009, I still am so accustomed to Word that it's hard for me to try something else. This is the book that's helping me use Pages.

[Beth Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful!

[Kay Fisher · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great manual
Terrible paper and font size and print color (dark gray not black)

885 pages - mostly redundant repeats