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iWork is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. The first version of iWork, iWork '05, was released in 2005. The suite originally bundled Keynote, a presentation program which had previously been sold as a standalone application, andPages, a combined word processing and page layout application.^[1][3] In 2007, Apple released iWork '08, which contained a new spreadsheetapplication, Numbers.^[4] iWork also includes access to iWork.com, which came in iWork '09 (released in 6th, January 2009), a beta service that allows users to upload and share documents online with others, who can download them and give feedback.^[4] iWork integrates with existing applications from Apple's iLife suite through the Media Browser, which allows users to drag and drop music from iTunes, movies from iMovie, and photos from iPhoto andAperture directly into iWork documents.^[1]

Although iWork is billed by Apple as "a successor to AppleWorks",^[1] it does not replicate the functionality of AppleWorks's database and drawing tools.^[5]

A well known issue and shortcoming, is the inability of iWork to create content in RTL (right to left) scripts (Such as Arabic, Persian, Hebrew). While TextEdit, the basic text editor provided within Mac OS X excels in creating and rendering these scripts, and while iWork has the capability to display some RTL texts in different contexts, creating new content, or editing existing content can be challenging. Features like Document/paragraph writing direction are missing, so editing paragraphs or longer texts in Hebrew, Arabic, can be daunting. Strange behavior in breaking lines, punctuation, mixed script text, impede coherent editing.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org