Nothing in the Mac App Store will get you updates to iWork '08, or iWork '09 applications on El Capitan. The Apple iWork 9.3 updater will bring these iWork '09 applications to their latest 12/2012 released versions. There is a single, downloadable updater for these iWork '09 applications that is required for compatibility with OS X El Capitan. Once these DVD applications are installed, they too will be dependent on their application libraries installed in System locations. You can still get the iWork '09 DVD from Amazon and Ebay resellers. 'from the original iWork '08 DVD, and then follow up with these iWork '08 updaters to get you to the last '08 versions: Thank You all again, my Best Regards, Jim I have yet to decide on the second ('09 DVD) part as I wouldn't want all the extra disruption while trying to download Sierra! I have done the first part, Pages now works fine for I put it here in case anyone might want to use the advise. I did download Apache Open Office to have a look at it but have decided and indeed acted upon a suggestion from the Apple Support Forum Hello Everyone who responded to my original message which was very much appreciated. There is no exhaustive list of features that no longer work in the iWork '09 product suite when installed on macOS Sierra. There may be other issues that I have not encountered.

Inability to open newer Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents than those created by iWork '09 applications - unless source documents are first exported to their iWork '09 document equivalents. The Mail Merge panels in Pages '09 may not be complete, but since I do not use Pages '09 for Mail/Data Merge, I could be mistaken. Drag and drop of images from Finder still works.

It is now impossible to update to iPhoto 9.6.1, as far as I know, and Photos may not migrate your iPhoto Library without a functional iPhoto v9.6.1 present. If you did not update iPhoto to v9.6.1 by now, then the Toolbar media tool will not show your iPhoto library images. Hyphenation no longer works in Pages '09 v4.3. This is now a manual export, and then attachment process. The Yosemite upgrade broke the Share menu : Send via Mail items in all iWork '09 applications. Provided that you have the iWork '09 DVD applications updated to their last revisions, then most of the features still work on macOS Sierra.

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