Thanks for participating in the iWork.com public beta.

Last year, we launched iCloud, a service that stores your music, photos, documents, and more and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices. Today, there are already over 40 million documents stored on iCloud by millions of iWork customers. Learn more about iCloud.

With a new way to share iWork documents between your devices using iCloud, the iWork.com public beta service will no longer be available. As of July 31, 2012, you will no longer be able to access your documents on the iWork.com site or view them on the web.

We recommend that you sign in to iWork.com before July 31, 2012, and download all your documents to your computer. For detailed instructions on how to save a copy of your documents on your computer, read this support article at Apple.com.

Sincerely,
The iWork team

Read these best practices for creating a presentation for animated playback on iWork.com. To learn more about iWork.com click here.

By using the latest version of Safari, viewers can experience the rich features of your presentation on a Mac or PC, iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. iWork.com uses the latest HTML5 technologies to create a rich play back experience. Click here to learn more. Also, read these best practices for creating a presentation for playback on iWork.com.

When you're finished working on your documents using Keynote, Pages, or Numbers on your iPad, use iWork.com to easily share them with others.

To share a document from any iWork for iPad app, tap the Share icon in the My Documents, Spreadsheets or Presentations view, and then tap "Share via iWork.com". Sign in using your Apple ID and password, and then type the email addresses of anyone you'd like to share the document with. Enter a message and tap Share. For a step by step guide including how to use advanced features such as document passwords, click here.

You can also save a document to iWork.com without sharing it. Just leave the To: field blank instead of entering an email address, and tap Share. Your document will be published to iWork.com so you can easily download it from a Mac, PC, or iPad.

Watch this tutorial to learn more about using iWork.com to share documents from your iPad or Mac.

Downloading Documents

To download one of your documents from iWork.com to your iPad, visit www.iwork.com from Safari on your iPad and sign in with your Apple ID.

In the list of your shared documents, tap the arrow next to the document you want to download, and then tap the iWork format.

A preview of the document opens in your browser and you can tap the "Open in..." button on the top right to import the document into the appropriate iWork app. For a step by step guide on how to download a document from iWork.com, click here.

iWork.com makes it easy to share your document with large groups, websites, and social networks by creating a public link. Anyone with the public link can see your document in a clean, high resolution view without comments or document notes.

It's easy to create a public link for a document you've shared on iWork.com. Just open your document and select Public in the Document Info pane. Click Show Public URL and copy the link so you can paste it in an email or post it on a website. iWork.com displays the number of views your publicly shared documents receive so you can easily track how often they are viewed.

If you decide to remove public access to your document, just turn off the public link in the Document Info pane.

Visit www.iwork.com using Safari on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to access and view your shared documents.

It's easy to store, access, and organize your documents shared on iWork.com. Simply visit www.iwork.com from any modern web browser and sign in using your Apple ID and password. From the Shared Documents page you can quickly organize your documents by selecting from the options Date, Comments, Name, or Size from the "Sorted by" menu. If you sort by "Comments", documents with new comments will automatically appear at the top of your Shared Documents page, making it easy to locate shared documents that have new comments.

Managing Storage Space

iWork.com provides 1 GB of storage space, enough to store up to 50 documents with an average size of 20 MB each. The storage indicator at the bottom of the Shared Documents page helps you keep track of your remaining space.

One way to maintain available storage space is to regularly delete documents that you no longer need to share. Before you delete your document from iWork.com, remember that you can download documents back to your computer. When you download the Keynote, Pages, or Numbers document in iWork '09 format, any comments left by your viewers will be included in the document. These comments appear as comment bubbles within the downloaded document and are linked to the relevant text, slide or table cell just as your viewers left them on iWork.com. When you have your new document version with its comments on your computer, you can easily review and make edits as needed.

Once you are done sharing and have downloaded the documents with comments, simply move your cursor over the document thumbnail on the Shared Documents page and click the Delete link.

128-bit SSL is a data encryption standard used by many online merchants and banks to protect transmission of sensitive information between two computers. SSL technology is used to encrypt data sent between your computer and iWork.com so that third parties cannot easily intercept and read it.

To further protect your document, you can add a password to documents you share on iWork.com.

Once the document is published to iWork.com, any viewer will be prompted for the password each time they try to access this shared document. If the document is shared with multiple viewers, they all use the same password.

To take advantage of the new features on iWork.com, including password protection of documents, be sure to update your iWork software to the latest version by running Software Update from your Mac.

iWork.com lets you know when a viewer has left feedback by sending you an email notification every time a new comment or note is added. You can adjust how often you receive these notifications by selecting from options on your Shared Documents page. Choose from Immediate, Hourly, Daily or Never.

To take advantage of the new features on iWork.com, including comment notification, be sure to update your iWork software to the latest version by running Software Update from your Mac.

Also, when you add new viewers online on iWork.com, the server sends them invitations directly without you needing to send a URL.

To take advantage of the new features on iWork.com, be sure to update your iWork software to the latest version by running Software Update from your Mac. After updating your software, the next time you publish a document to iWork.com, an email verification is sent to your email address. Click the verification link in the email, and then continue sharing your document on iWork.com.