It’s a subtle visual hint, but it’s there. On Pages for Mac, you can simply click on a change to review it and accept it from a sidebar on the left in fact, if you click on the blue boxes in the sidebar you can see the blue line connecting the change to the actual text being highlighted in real time. Mostly though, I believe that the interaction of Change Tracking needs to be redesigned entirely. I can see how lack of Comments and Review mode can be an issue for some users. The lack of support for Comments will sometimes be a problem (depending upon how often you work with people who use that feature), but as long as you know about it and have an app like Documents to Go, Office2 or Quickoffice Pro, you can work around the Comments omission when it becomes an issue. I wish that the update included a better way to review each edit, but for the most part I suspect that I’ll just scroll through a document and look at the redline edits in the context of the document as a whole so this omission is not critical for me. For the most part, I really like the way that Apple implemented this feature in the latest version of Pages. Track changes support has long been the Holy Grail for many litigators using an iPad or iPhone. Jeff Richardson does use Pages on a regular basis and posted his thoughts on the new version ( via David Sparks): However, last night I noted how the way Apple implemented Change Tracking on iOS felt outdated and convoluted. I’m not a frequent user of this particular feature, but it could have come in handy when we edited my Mountain Lion review earlier this year. Yesterday, Apple released an update for iWork on iOS that added, among changes to Numbers and Keynote, support for change tracking in Pages. If Apple can’t afford to ship more complete rewrites on day one (and it’s not like Apple didn’t think this would happen), being communicative about future changes is obviously better than silence (and we have plenty of precedents).ĪppleScript “improvements” have been announced for Numbers and Keynote, but not for Pages (who’s going to tell Pierre Igot?). I still think that Apple should avoid this kind of software launches (no criticism is better than criticism, after all), but I’ll take promised features over nothing. I’m glad I didn’t believe Apple was a company that didn’t care about advanced users anymore (as the narrative goes in some corners of the Internet these days). We plan to reintroduce some of these features in the next few releases and will continue to add brand new features on an ongoing basis. In rewriting these applications, some features from iWork ’09 were not available for the initial release. These apps feature an all-new design with an intelligent format panel and many new features such as easy ways to share documents, Apple-designed styles for objects, interactive charts, new templates, and new animations in Keynote. These applications were rewritten from the ground up to be fully 64-bit and to support a unified file format between OS X and iOS 7 versions, as well as iWork for iCloud beta. The new iWork applications-Pages, Numbers, and Keynote-were released for Mac on October 22nd.
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