Apple Updates iWork With Password Protection

Apple rolled out on Friday a series of new updates for its iWork platform, including password protection.

iWork — Apple's suite of productivity apps (including Pages, Numbers and presentation program Keynote) — received new features across its OS X, iOS and web-based iCloud versions. Besides adding the ability to protect documents with passwords, the update also makes the apps more compatible with other platforms such as Microsoft Office.

The news comes a few months after Apple detailed changes it wanted to make to iWork.

Among the new additions is customizable alignment and spacing guides to Pages, allowing you to rotate, resize and mask objects with various-shaped frames. The app Numbers also added column and rows sorting, as well as the ability to switch to vertical view. Meanwhile, Keynote now has a customizable toolbar, the ability to restore old transitions and builds and improvements to AppleScript support. Read more...