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hhbv807 (apparently)
- 02:28pm Jan 25, 2005 PSTvia emailBefore I purchase iWork (especially Pages), I want to understand how
it plays with other applications. I know that Applescript is barely
supported at all, and that's a huge mark against it. However,
Apple's description of Pages includes the following:
"you may have information you'd like to appear in your next Pages
document that already exists elsewhere. It could be a series of
columns from a spreadsheet..."
Does this mean that Pages will let me imbed an .xls document? Also,
since Pages has some sort of graphing function, does this mean that
Pages can reference data that is stored in an Excel document, or
Filemaker, or what?
H.
wbauer186 (apparently)
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Jan 26, 2005 7:54 am
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Sue Boettcher
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Jan 26, 2005 7:54 am
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I have Pages, and although I will admit I haven't tried the charting thing, it looks very similar to putting a chart in Keynote. (Or Powerpoint, for that matter.)
Dunno if that helps any...
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tarcher (apparently)
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Jan 26, 2005 9:16 am
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Re: iWork and other applications
On Jan 25, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Hudson Barton wrote:
> Does this mean that Pages will let me imbed an .xls document? Also,
> since Pages has some sort of graphing function, does this mean that
> Pages can reference data that is stored in an Excel document, or
> Filemaker, or what?
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> H.
No. Pages imports Microsoft Word, but not Excel. I don't have Filemaker
to check it, but it's not mentioned at all in the documentation.
I tried making a spreadsheet in AppleWorks, but Pages wouldn't import
it, either.
---Tim Archer
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bigstevemac (apparently)
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Jan 27, 2005 10:37 am
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Re: iWork and other applications
>> Does this mean that Pages will let me imbed an .xls document? Also,
>> since Pages has some sort of graphing function, does this mean that
>> Pages can reference data that is stored in an Excel document, or
>> Filemaker, or what?
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>> H.
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> No. Pages imports Microsoft Word, but not Excel. I don't have Filemaker
> to check it, but it's not mentioned at all in the documentation.
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> I tried making a spreadsheet in AppleWorks, but Pages wouldn't import
> it, either.
As far as I can tell, Pages simply lays out tables, as distinct from
spreadsheets. I haven't turned up any calculation functions; it seems that
Pages simply displays the contents of cells without performing any
operations on them. As a result, it doesn't, as far as I can tell, import
data from programmes such as Excel and FileMaker, which do (or at least can)
perform calculations.
This ties in with what has been observed elsemessage about Pages, that it is
an entry-level design programme, intended for those who have no need to
crunch industrial-strength numbers.
Biggles
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