Is the Pages in the mac app store the same as the one in iWork?

Question

I like the look of Pages as a change from MIcrosoft Word.  wondering if I should pay $AU129 and get the whole iWork package, or whether it's better to get the individual products at $AU $21 on the mac app store.
If there is any difference, how significant is it?

Answer 1

Example:
somebody has Lion on a partition, Snow Leopard on an other one (or on an external bootable HD).
With the iWork package, he must install several copies of the Frameworks.
With the MAS ones he may work without them. The apps installed on the Lion partition would be usable fromthe other system.
This is why I feel that the MAS versions are a best choice for standard users.
For me, having the FrameWorks out of the apps is interesting because I customize some resources like the names of the Spreadsheet functions. Apple refuse to put accents where they are supposed to be because Excel doesn't use them. As some names embed accented chars and other don’t it’s boring so I edited the resource and now I know that accents are required by every functions. With Shift locked we get these chars with a single keypress so it's really comfortable.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 31 janvier 2012
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
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