Numbers is Apple’s version of Microsoft Excel, and like Pages, it’s a lot nicer to use than the competition. It also opens Microsoft Word documents, so goodbye Word, hello Pages. Pages is a much nicer word processor than Microsoft Word, both easier to use and more capable. IWork is a collection of three programs: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. I’ve been working with it fairly intensely as I’m the Technical Reviewer for the iWork ’09 “Missing Manual” book. The whole thing is a bit odd as I've never changed update settings and never run any beta versions of macOS or anything like that.Apple put out a new version of iWork at Macworld Expo and it’s really terrific. That I wasn't getting any updates until I clicked that 'Details' link and selected to reset to the default update settings. So I opened it and - lo and behold - software update said there was an update for my Mac: macOS Monterey 12.2. Then it immediately showed the red notitifcation icon atop the system settings icon in the dock.

So I selected the option to reset to the defaults.Īfter resetting it to the default, I closed the system settings window. I clicked the 'Details' link and it popped up a dialog asking if I'd like to reset the update setting to the default. It was then that I noticed this message about ''. It told me my Mac was up to date after doing the check for updates. I'm currently running macOS Monterey (was on 12.1).

I just went and manually checked for software updates, since I hadn't seen any updates in a while.

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