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First Look: Pages '09

09.01.2009
Like its two iWork cohorts, Pages '09 has received some significant and important updates as part of the released this week. In fact, after less than a week's worth of face time with the latest version of Pages, it's clear that these updates make Apple's business productivity application a more viable option for all your business needs.

Getting choosy with templates

sports the same, newly redesigned template chooser that is a part of all three iWork applications.

While at first this may seem like little more than window dressing, as you make your way through Pages' collection of templates--40 new ones join 140 existing templates for a total of 180--you'll notice that if there is more than one template page associated with the template you're looking at, moving your mouse over the template gives you a preview of all the template's available page types. This preview provides a nice way for you to select your template without first having to open the entire template and view all the pages. Watch the embedded video for a better look at the template chooser in action.

Another welcome addition to the template browser is an Open Recent button at the bottom left of the window that lets open recently used documents in just two clicks.

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