iWork iPad Suite Gets An Update

Apple has just released an update to its very successful office suite for the iPad. Nothing earth-shattering actually, but still a couple nice additions.

First off, iWork for iPad is now ready for the iPad's international debut as all apps were added support for French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, as well as Spanish. Compatibility with Microsoft Office documents has finally been improved and many other little early hiccups have now been taken care of.

Here is the full official changelog: Pages:

• Support for French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
• Toolbar and ruler are now available in wide-screen landscape view
• Documents automatically fit to page width in landscape view
• Enhanced Back/Front slider in the Arrange panel
• Improves reliability when exporting Microsoft Word documents
• Addresses issues with exporting documents previously imported from Microsoft Word
• Fixes an issue with text wrapping in Microsoft Word after exporting a document with a frame around an image
• Addresses a chart font size issue when exporting documents previously imported from Microsoft Word
• Resolves an issue with scrolling after inserting and playing a movie

Numbers:

Support for French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, - Simplified Chinese, and Spanish

Enhanced Back/Front slider in the Arrange panel

Improves reliability when importing Numbers ’09 spreadsheets

Addresses a chart font size issue when exporting spreadsheets previously imported from Microsoft Excel

Fixes an issue when formatting a table pasted from Keynote or Pages

Addresses an issue where formulas did not properly update when dragging and dropping cells

Fixes an issue with applying a new style to a table in a template after an Undo

Keynote:

Support for French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish

Enhanced Back/Front slider in the Arrange panel

Added the option to show additional alignment guides at smaller intervals

Improves reliability when importing Keynote ’09 presentations

Improves reliability when importing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations

Addresses a chart font size issue when exporting presentations previously imported from Microsoft PowerPoint

Fixes an issue preventing access to some table cell color fills in landscape mode with an external keyboard

I've been looking through iTunes reviews for these and people seem really split; how do you like iWork?

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