When Apple released iWork ’13 (the first flat-design update for iOS 7), it was met with horror from power users. Apple had effectively rewritten Pages, Numbers, and Keynote from scratch, stripping away advanced features like mail merge, custom toolbar editing, and even basic AppleScript support.
Keep the 2014-2017 patched versions on an old Mac or a virtual machine for legacy document access, but export your critical files to PDF or Microsoft Office format for future-proofing. The patches have done their job, but time marches on. Have you successfully used the 2014-2017 patched iWork suite on a modern Mac? Share your experience in the comments below. all apple iwork 20142017 patched
By 2014, iWork was in a "Frankenstein" state. Version 5.0 (Pages) was pretty but useless for professionals. Over the next three years (2014 through 2017), Apple embarked on a furious patching schedule. They released update after update (5.0 to 7.0 in Pages) just to restore features that iWork ’09 had natively. When Apple released iWork ’13 (the first flat-design