iWork.com Features

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If you have not signed up for Apple's free web based service for sharing documents, called iWorks.com Beta, you should give it a try. It is great to share Apple's iWork office suite documents and it provides collaboration when working on documents such as reports, presentations and spreadsheets. But what are the features of this service that is still in Beta and that not much people have heard or seen.

Mac and PC Friendly
Because iWork.com is web based, the projects you publish to it can be viewed by anyone using a current browser. You don’t need to know whether your colleagues use a Mac or a PC. You can publish your work and invite others to view it without ever leaving Pages, Numbers, or Keynote by clicking the iWork.com button in the toolbar, and your document, spreadsheet, or presentation is uploaded instantly. iWork.com sends a unique URL to each viewer you invite.

Web Based Documents
Part of what makes sharing your work using iWork.com so good is that viewers see your document, spreadsheet, or presentation just as you designed it, complete with layout, fonts, colors, graphics, and photos. It's an intuitive interface makes everything easy to navigate and print.

Comment on Documents
With notes and comments, iWork.com lets everyone make comments. Viewers can leave comments on specific text in a Pages document, on any cell in a Numbers sheet, and on a Keynote slide or they can leave feedback about the entire document, spreadsheet, or presentation with notes that appear in a discussion thread. Notes are time stamped and color coded, so you know exactly who said what and when. iWork.com keeps you up to date on feedback by sending email notifications every time a new note is added. You can adjust your settings to control how frequently you want to receive notifications.

iWork, MS Office and PDF
Sharing your Pages document, Numbers spreadsheet, or Keynote presentation on iWork.com means you can share these documents in different formats. During the publishing process, iWork uploads not only a web version, but also versions in iWork, Microsoft Office, and PDF formats. If you enable downloading, your viewers can download and print the format appropriate for them.

Document Management
You can access and manage the iWork files you share from anywhere by signing in at www.iwork.com. Quickly identify your shared documents with a thumbnail preview and organize them by date, name, size, or new comments received. You can view or download specific documents with a single click. When you finish sharing, you can remove your documents just as easily.

Secure Documents
You can share your important documents, spreadsheets, and presentations securely. iWork.com features automatic 128-bit SSL encryption, safeguarding communication between you and other viewers. You can also password-protect the documents you share, so anyone who receives your document’s URL will be asked for a password in order to view the document on iWork.com. That way, you can share, download, and comment with confidence.

So are you taking advantage of iWork.com and what is your experience with it?

iWork.com Makes it Easier to Share Documents

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Apple's iWork.com Beta, web based service, has now made it easy to share your document with large groups, websites, and social networks by creating a public link. Anyone with the public link can see your document in a clean, high resolution view without comments or document notes. It's easy to create a public link for a document you've shared on iWork.com.

Just open your document and select Public in the Document Info pane. Click Show Public URL and copy the link so you can paste it in an email or post it on a website. iWork.com displays the number of views your publicly shared documents receive so you can easily track how often they are viewed. If you decide to remove public access to your document, you can just turn off the public link in the Document Info pane. But what is iWorks.com Beta and are you currently using this free service?

What is iWork.com?
iWork.com is a web-based service from Apple that lets you securely share your iWork ’09 documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with anyone, whether they use a Mac or PC. Documents shared on iWork.com can be viewed in a modern web browser and invited viewers can add comments and document notes.

How do I share documents on iWork.com?
iWork.com can be used to share documents created in iWork '09 by using an Apple ID and a working Internet connection. Once you have finished creating your spreadsheet, document, or presentation, just click the iWork.com button in the toolbar or choose Share > Share via iWork.com to get started. Then, sign in to iWork.com using your existing Apple ID (iTunes or MobileMe ID) or sign up for a new one here. You will be asked to invite viewers to your document via email and select options for sharing your document. iWork.com then sends each of your invited viewers an email invitation with a link to your document.

How do I publish a document on iWork.com for public viewing?
You can publish a document you shared on iWork.com for public viewing by creating a public URL (web address) for the document and posting the URL on a website. Viewers can’t add comments or notes to a publicly published iWork.com document. To create a public URL for a document: Open an iWork.com document. Select Public in the Document Info pane. Click Show Public URL and copy the URL so you can paste it into an email or website. If you decide to remove public access to a document, open the iWork.com document and deselect Public in the Document Info pane.

So are you taking advantage of iWork.com and what is your experience with it?