Keynote & Numbers -good Pages - bleh. - Doug Miner

Wow. I think you are missing something. I used Word for years. I find it bloated, slow and completely unintuitive. Pages, on the other hand is rock solid and does exactly what I want it to do with great accuracy and little or no hassle. I work in an MS Office environment and everyone comments on how great my docs look. To each his own.

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Thursday, May 28 2009 @ 02:20 PM PDT

Keynote & Numbers -good Pages - bleh. - Brass Hammer

I strongly disagree with these comments. I am an attorney, and because of that I require a word processor that is second to none. Pages fits the bill. I find Apple's Pages to be far superior to Microsoft Word. As far as I can tell, Apple's Pages does everything, and I mean everything, that Microsoft Word does that is of any value. I understand that there are some idiosyncratic, weird, "features" in Word that are not included in Pages. However, I've never known anyone to actually use them. The one thing missing from Apple's Pages, at least for an attorney, is the ability to create a tables of authority. However, I live without that because I find Microsoft Word is a bloated, buggy, unstable piece of junk. Pages on the other hand, does most things in a very exceptional way. I will say this however - if you're expecting to move from Microsoft Word to Apple Pages, and you think that everything you learned in Word is applicable to Pages, you are in for a rude awakening. Apple's pages does do things differently than Word. However, after using Pages for a while I found that Pages is superior. The only person I have ever known, and I mean the only person, who did not like Pages and instead preferred Word was someone who was simply unwilling to learn a new system, and instead insisted on Pages being a Word knock off. Thankfully, that is not the case.

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Friday, May 29 2009 @ 08:02 AM PDT

Keynote & Numbers -good Pages - bleh. - ManikGrafik

It's such a shame you see it this way. You, obviously, were never a Quark 3.1 (the best version EVER by the way) user. This mimics EXACTLY the properties of Quark 3.1. I'm just trying to decide if you really have no concept of a page layout program, or you just really LOVE MS Word and are completely and are frustrated by the infinite possibilities capable with this product.

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Tuesday, September 29 2009 @ 03:07 AM PDT