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Apple continues to improve and add new features to the iWork trio of applications. In this short video, Don takes you through adding live video sources to your Keynote presentation so your viewers can see you as well as your iOS or iPadOS device, if you so choose.

Don also demonstrates the multi-user presentation feature using two Macs, showing you how two people can collaborate and share responsibilities while doing a presentation.

You may think pivot tables are for spreadsheet nerds, and there's some truth to that. Allison's goal, however, is to show you how enjoyable and useful they can be.

Now that Apple has finally brought pivot tables to Numbers, we can create them on our Macs, iPads, and even iPhones. Faced with a pile of data, pivot tables can help you can turn that mess into actionable information.

Allison uses data she's collected about solar energy generation and power consumption to demonstrate how to take a long spreadsheet and turn it into a simple 4x4 pivot table that answers the question, "Am I generating more power than I'm consuming?"

Apple's decision to completely rewrite its iWork suite of apps way back in 2013 brought with it numerous changes to the overall feature set of those programs. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are still being updated frequently, bringing back features that had been removed, and introducing some new functionality.

In this episode, Don takes a look at the new features added since his last look back in 2019.

Apple is continuously improving Pages, Numbers and Keynote by adding in new features or adding back functionality that had been removed from the original versions several years ago.

In this tip video, Don takes a look at some of the common features implemented in the most recent iOS release, as well as some app-specific features.

Apple is continuously improving Pages, Numbers and Keynote by adding in new features or adding back functionality that had been removed from the original versions several years ago.

In this tip video, Don takes a look at some of the common features implemented in the most recent macOS release, as well as some of the new app-specific features.

Recent updates have brought further improvements to Pages, Numbers and Keynote.

In this tip video, Don looks at the new ability to add Table of Contents to Pages for Mac and iOS. The Table of Contents can be used to navigate your Pages documents as well as exported PDF and ePUB documents.

You also learn about the creation and syncing of custom shapes across all your iCloud devices.

Following on from the recent update shows, a final quick update on Pages, Number and Keynote.

In this tip video, Don takes a look at some changes to Smart Annotations and Drawing in Pages, as well as the common changes in Charting and the support for displaying LaTeX or MathML equations across all of the iWork Apps.

Pages is a tremendous application from Apple and is included for free with all new Macs and iOS devices. We've covered Pages in depth in previous tutorials but recently Apple announced some significant new features across the iWork suite.

In this tutorial, Don takes you through the significant new features of Pages on both the Mac and iOS. We'll look at Numbers and Keynote in a future tutorial.

As 2017 comes to a close, the newest version of Pages still does not support basic mail merge.

However, all is not lost as Sal Soghoian and the macosxautomation.com website has it covered.

This episode takes a look at some of the scripts and utilities available from this tremendous resource, and demonstrates how to:

• Generate a template form letter and populate it with data from a Numbers spreadsheet using a special app.

• Use the Contacts App, Pages and Mail to generate a personalised letter to a single group within your Contacts.

In the second of this occasional series, we take a look at the changes to the latest version of Apple's premiere spreadsheet application: Numbers for macOS and iOS.

With lots of extra features, Numbers is still the best way to crunch numbers and present them beautifully!

Also in this episode, we take a look at protecting your Apple ID using two-factor authentication. This is due to a mandatory requirement starting June 15, 2017, for any third-party apps to use app-specific passwords if they access iCloud services.

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The final part of our two part series on Numbers for the Mac.

Apple have re-written Numbers from scratch to add additional compatibility with the iOS version, and to allow you to share and collaborate on iCloud.

In this episode, I take a look at using formulas and functions as well as inserting and manipulating charts and other objects into your spreadsheets.

The final part of our two part series on Numbers for iOS.

Apple have re-written Numbers from scratch to add additional compatibility with the Mac version, and to allow you to share and collaborate on iCloud.

In this episode, I take a look at using formulas and functions as well as inserting and manipulating charts and other objects into your spreadsheets.

As part of our ongoing coverage of all the new iWork applications, this week I take a look at Numbers for the Mac.

Apple have re-written Numbers from scratch to add additional compatibility with the iOS version, and to allow you to share and collaborate on iCloud.

This first in a two part series, will take you through the basics of Numbers and give you a good understanding of some of its core features and capabilities.

[Note: The day before publication, Apple released Numbers v3.1 on the Mac as well as an updated iOS version. The new version does not impact on any of the elements covered in this video as it's mainly bug fixes and stabilities improvements, with just a couple of tweaks - I'll cover them next week]

As part of our ongoing coverage of all the new iWork applications, this week I take a look at Numbers for the iOS.

Apple have re-written Numbers from scratch to add additional compatibility with the Mac version, and to allow you to share and collaborate on iCloud.

This first in a two part series will take you through the basics of Numbers and give you a good understanding of some of its core features and capabilities.

[Note: The day before publication, Apple released Numbers v3.1 on the Mac as well as an updated iOS version. The new version does not impact on any of the elements covered in this video as it'd mainly bug fixes and stability improvements, with just a couple of tweaks - I'll cover them next week]

Continuing on from last week, I take a final look at Pages for iOS.

A universal app and fully optimised for iOS7, Pages for iOS gives you full access to all your documents in iCloud from any of your iOS devices.

The new version of Pages is a complete re-write, and brings basic feature parity and a unified file format across the Mac, iOS and the Web.

This week, I complete this short series by checking out Interactive Tables, Document formatting and sharing via iCloud.

Following on from last week's show, I complete my coverage of Pages for the Mac.

Pages '13 for the Mac is a complete re-write, and brings parity and a unified file format across the Mac, iOS and the Web.

Whilst some of the more advanced features of Pages '09 have been removed to accommodate the new cross platform support, Pages '13 is still a useful tool for a large percentage of word processing needs.

In this week's show, I continue my coverage of the entire suite of updated iWork and iLife suites, by taking a final look at some of the basics of Pages for the Mac. Be sure to check out episode SCOM0429 for part 1, as well as SCOI0140, 141 & 142 for Pages on iOS

Continuing on from last week, I take a further look at Pages for iOS.

A universal app and fully optimised for iOS7, Pages for iOS gives you full access to all your documents in iCloud from any of your iOS devices.

The new version of Pages is a complete re-write, and brings basic feature parity and a unified file format across the Mac, iOS and the Web.

This week, I cover inserting and manipulating Media, Tables and Text Boxes.

Pages is Apple's latest word processing application and has been completely re-written from scratch.

The re-write brings basic feature parity and a unified file format across the three primary platforms supported by Apple - The Mac, iOS and the Web via iCloud.

Whilst some of the more advanced features of the previous version of Pages have been removed to accommodate the new cross platform support, Pages is still a useful tool for a large percentage of basic word processing needs and it's now free!

In this week's show, I start my coverage of the entire suite of updated iWork and iLife suites, by taking an initial look at some of the basics of Pages for the Mac.

No previous knowledge of Pages is assumed and I start from first principles.

As well as a new version of Pages for the Mac, Apple have launched a brand new version of Pages for iOS.

A universal app and fully optimised for iOS7, Pages for iOS gives you full access to all your documents in iCloud from any of your iOS devices.

The new version of Pages is a complete re-write, and brings basic feature parity and a unified file format across the Mac, iOS and the Web.

In this week's show, I start by taking an initial look at some of the basics of Pages for iOS. No previous knowledge of Pages is assumed and the tutorial will lead you through from first principles.