There's also new integration with and , for adding mathematical expressions, endnotes and bibliographies to your documents, easier options for sharing your documents with others, and some major enhancements to Pages' AppleScript capabilities, which should make it much easier to automate repetitive tasks in Pages.

From what I can tell from my initial testing, Pages '09 looks like a great update. I'll continue to put the application through its paces before I come back with a full review.

Jeffery Battersby is a regular contributor to Macworld who lives in New York.]