Keynote, Pages and Numbers for iPad Updated | PadGadget

Apple updated their office suite (Pages, Keynote and Numbers) for the iPad earlier today.  The updates include bug fixes and several new features.  The new features include better file transfer support as well as improved import and export with Apple iWork and Microsoft Office files for iPad users.
The updated Pages, Keynote and Numbers iPad apps include the following new features:
Pages

• Copy documents between Pages and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
• Option to display the word count for your document.
• Support for opening .txt files from Mail.
• Ability to group and ungroup objects.
• Import and export existing footnotes, endnotes, sections and tables of contents.
• Import and export Pages ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.

Keynote

• Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format.
• Copy presentations between Keynote and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
• Support for audio in builds when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.
• Ability to group and ungroup objects.
• Add animated builds to grouped objects.
• Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations.
• Revolving Door, Swoosh and Wipe slide transition animations.
• Improved slide size conversion when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.

Numbers

• Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel (.XLS) format.
• Copy spreadsheets between Numbers and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
• Ability to group and ungroup objects.
• Open CSV files from Mail and other apps.
• Import and export Numbers ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.

Apple’s iPad has already made inroads with the business community so improved interoperability with Microsoft Office is a smart move to garner even more enterprise support.
Apple faces increased competition in the iPad office space. Google recently announced its iPad support for Google Docs and Microsoft announced they were also busy working on iPad applications.
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