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Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to

By : Renee J. Valdez
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Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to

By: Renee J. Valdez

Overview of this book

The new iPad's display and processing power allows for a rich media experience that is unlike any other. Instead of solely consuming media, you can create, edit, and manage everything from Excel documents to HD home movies. The multi-touch interface makes creating and editing intuitive. iCloud syncs documents, movies, music, and images to the cloud for access from all your Apple devices."Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to" will walk you through iCloud setup, project creations, and syncing. If you want to utilize all that your iPad has to offer, this is the book for you. Exploring Apple's suite of apps designed especially for the iPad, these recipes provide easy to follow steps enabling you to become a power user.You'll begin with the basics; setting up Mail, and managing your photos. Each recipe builds upon previous recipes and by the end of the book, you'll have projects in every app within Apple's media suites.If you're interested in using your iPad to the fullest, this book will cover the major applications developed by Apple and take advantage of all of its features. We begin by setting up email, using the VIP inbox, iCloud, and Photostream within the Photos application. We'll then dig a little deeper and explore iPhoto and iMovie, creating slideshows, and creating a video trailer. Lastly, we'll explore the apps within Apple's iWorks suite, learning how to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. We will finish the book with a musical note, exploring iTunes and GarageBand. "Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to" will walk you through tasks with easy to follow recipes that will give you a great overview on the new iPad and its features.  
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

iWork – Keynote, Numbers, and Pages (Must know)


What are these applications and why are they useful? Well, we're accustomed to creating and editing our documents on a computer, usually in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This is changing and we're now spending more time on our portable devices than at our actual computers. The most important thing when charting these waters is compatibility. We'll learn more about the compatibility of these apps with commonly used file types in the following exercise.

Getting ready

To proceed with the ensuing set of instructions, you must download each of the following applications from the App Store.

  • Download Keynote, a presentation app that is capable of creating, editing, reading, and exporting a number of popular file formats. Keynote utilizes the iPad's large screen with familiar multi-touch gestures that make it intuitive and fast. You can edit and review on the go, with each presentation auto-syncing to Keynote in iCloud.

  • Download Numbers, an app that brings touch to spreadsheets. It's quick and makes it easy to create impressive data displays using tables, charts, and graphs. Since it's capable of editing, reading, and exporting common file types, compatibility outside of the suite is remarkably good. It syncs with iCloud, and you're able to view files on, and export them to, all of your devices.

  • Download Pages, a word processor capable of reading Word documents as well as .pdf files. Editing is a breeze, and access is even easier as iCloud takes care of saving and backing up your documents. Exporting to .doc and .pdf ensures compatibility with other word-processing programs.

How to do it..

Open your App Store app and download each of the following applications:

  1. Keynote

    • Create and edit presentations

    • Compatible with PowerPoint

    • Import and export .ppt and .pptx

  2. Numbers

    • Create and edit spreadsheets

    • Compatible with Excel and Open Office

    • Import and export .xls, .xlsx

  3. Pages

    • Create and edit documents

    • Compatible with Word

    • Import and export .doc, .docx

How it works...

Each app's files are attached to the Apple ID we made the purchase with. While logged in with that Apple ID on www.iCloud.com, the files will be synced and ready for download from any computer.

There's more...

If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, or even another iPad, we can download Keynote, Numbers, and Pages using the same Apple ID at no cost. Having already purchased them for our iPad with our Apple ID, these applications are available to us on all of our devices sharing the same ID.

In the next recipe, we'll work with Keynote, the iOS equivalent of Excel. We'll create a simple presentation using Keynote's touch features and familiarize ourselves with the interface.

Downloading your application's counterpart

For application ubiquity, there's the option of downloading each of the application's counterpart for your OS X desktop or laptop. Each will cost you $19.99 and will sync along with all of your other devices. This is handy for those of us who still want the ability to edit on our computers.