For all iWork apps, the update improves image handling when you reduce the file size of images with Instant Alpha applied. (Instant Alpha was introduced in iWork '08; it lets you make image backgrounds transparent without having to use a third-party image editor such as Photoshop.) In addition, the update improves file-size management when you insert some movies.

iWork's help features have been updated, and there's a now a link to online resources in the Help menu. Finally, iWork 9.0.3 addresses general compatibility issues across the suite.

As for Keynote, the update improves the reliability of guides in the presentation app by changing the display frequency and relevance. It also resolves an issue with GarageBand exports. There are number of fixes involving charts, including resolutions for issues when working with Move actions in chart builds, pasting a Numbers table that has cells with wrap turned on, and previewing some charts in the Build inspector. Pasting multiple cells containing duration or date/time values into the Chart Data Editor would only paste zeroes--that issue is fixed with this update, Apple says.

Other Keynote-specific fixes include tackling an issue where a laptop battery would run out of power when playing a presentation and improving reliability when dragging-and-dropping text in Outline view.

Pages also exhibited the same bug where copying and pasting multiple cells with duration or time/date values would paste only zeroes. As with Keynote, the update fixes that in Apple's page-layout application. Other Pages changes include improved reliability when working with objects in Full-Screen mode and fixes for some issues involving the citations from the EndNote bibliographical software.