<p>Keynote, Numbers and Pages, Apple's house-made apps for presentations, spreadsheet work and word processing, should share documents better with the update thanks to increased compatibility included in a new update released Tuesday.</p><p>Apple says its iWork productivity apps for iOS should play better with the Mac version of the apps and with Microsoft Office, thanks to a key update to the apps on Tuesday. Easy compatibility between these apps with their Office analogs is important to business users, many of whom rely heavily on the Microsoft productivity toolset.</p><p>Keynote, Numbers and Pages, which are Apple's house-made apps for presentations, spreadsheets and word processing, should share documents better with the update thanks to increased compatibility.</p><p>Keynote now has better support for PowerPoint and Keynote for Mac slide sizes and more themes (Apple maintains iWork apps for Mac and iOS as separate products). Pages to many users' relief finally gets the ability to track changes, and to accept and reject those changes while editing. Numbers, meanwhile, now lets users hide or unhide rows or columns in spreadsheets and preserve rich text when importing tables to the app.</p><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/apple/upgrade-to-iwork-ios-apps-means-better-compatibility-with-word-iwork-for-mac/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234359/Apple_boosts_iOS_iWork_suite_s_Office_doc_compatibility">Apple boosts iOS iWork suite&#039;s Office doc compatibility</a> (Computerworld)</p><p><a href="http://blogs.cio.com/iphone/17617/apples-pages-ios-app-now-supports-microsoft-word-track-changes">Apple&#039;s Pages iOS App Now Supports Microsoft Word Track Changes</a> (CIO (blog))</p><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/apple-touts-office-compatibility-with-iwork-for-ios-updates/">Apple touts Office compatibility with iWork for iOS updates</a> (Ars Technica)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dzDUb8svPufqlcMQHAk4pil1I0oOM&ned=us">32 additional articles.</a></p>