It's taking some time to get used to it when you switch over from Windows and
MS Office, but it's worth investing it: The Application is Rock-solid, it is
good at smaller DTP tasks as well as word processing, and it is feature rich. I
love it. Now if only i could get used to the keyboard layout faster :-)
I like this word processor, it is indeed much cheaper than Microsoft office
(which essentially gives us tons of other software which we'll never use. E.g.
Microsoft Access).
However this is not quite as powerful as Microsoft word, one of the missing
features is bibliography/citing. Word does this beautifully. I suppose the 09
version have this though.
The latest version, '09, brings a bunch of improvements, and at this point
there really is no need to stick with microsoft office. It brings many of the
features of word, and several additions, and with the ability to save in many
different formats it gets easy to work with windows users and such.
Have been using OpenOffice 3 for a while and only recently decided to
download the free trial of iWork '09. Friends of mine have iWork '08 and I was
pretty annoyed to find that I have to save to a different format compatible with
the previous version so that my friends could open my documents. Other than that
I like what I have seen so far but at the end of the day OpenOffice is free!
It could be better or more powerful, but it sure is elegant and smooth. MS
Office, despite being pretty great on Windows, is terrible on Mac. I love Pages
regardless; it feels very natural writing on it.
Like the rest of the iWork suite. I like Pages, but don't use it as much as
the other two programs. It kind of falls in between very simple Word Processors
and powerful page layout software. Still much easier to use that MS Word...
For a time on my Mac I still used Mac Word. But things in Pages are so much
more simple and smooth. The only problem I have with this is the lack of an
inbuilt equations tool.
I was really sad when Claris/Apple phased out AppleWorks. I had used it for
years and become extremely competent with the draw environment to create all my
manuals and tutorial documents.
When I first started Pages, it seemed to me to be SO much like Word (and I
hated word!) that I pretty much dismissed it immediately.
I was in an Apple Store one day, wondering what I could ask the trainer....
oh yes....Pages.
Well to my surprise, I discovered that the Page Format environment was
actually very like Clarisworks draw environment and once I had realised that I
KNEW I could use it easily. What fun I had that night and over the next weeks
turning all my old Claris docs in to Pages docs. And of course, with Pages 09
you can even show your docs off on the web for friends and colleagues to comment
on!!
Far superior to Word on the Mac, and it even imports Word documents. It's
also easy on the eyes and behaves like a Mac app should (not zooming to random
sizes like Word does).
It's taking some time to get used to it when you switch over from Windows and MS Office, but it's worth investing it: The Application is Rock-solid, it is good at smaller DTP tasks as well as word processing, and it is feature rich. I love it. Now if only i could get used to the keyboard layout faster :-)
pages and the rest of the iWork software rock! Also they are cheaper than Microsoft office.
Quick, Smart and Mac friendly!
Better than this sheet of Word
I like this word processor, it is indeed much cheaper than Microsoft office (which essentially gives us tons of other software which we'll never use. E.g. Microsoft Access).
However this is not quite as powerful as Microsoft word, one of the missing features is bibliography/citing. Word does this beautifully. I suppose the 09 version have this though.
i mostly use text edit, but sometimes this is the tool
The latest version, '09, brings a bunch of improvements, and at this point there really is no need to stick with microsoft office. It brings many of the features of word, and several additions, and with the ability to save in many different formats it gets easy to work with windows users and such.
Have been using OpenOffice 3 for a while and only recently decided to download the free trial of iWork '09. Friends of mine have iWork '08 and I was pretty annoyed to find that I have to save to a different format compatible with the previous version so that my friends could open my documents. Other than that I like what I have seen so far but at the end of the day OpenOffice is free!
It could be better or more powerful, but it sure is elegant and smooth. MS Office, despite being pretty great on Windows, is terrible on Mac. I love Pages regardless; it feels very natural writing on it.
Like the rest of the iWork suite. I like Pages, but don't use it as much as the other two programs. It kind of falls in between very simple Word Processors and powerful page layout software. Still much easier to use that MS Word...
I used microsoft word for a while, but it kept chrashing. This is much more stable.
For a time on my Mac I still used Mac Word. But things in Pages are so much more simple and smooth. The only problem I have with this is the lack of an inbuilt equations tool.
A nice and simple text editor/layout app. Much better than the expensive, ugly and bloated m$ word.
I was really sad when Claris/Apple phased out AppleWorks. I had used it for years and become extremely competent with the draw environment to create all my manuals and tutorial documents.
When I first started Pages, it seemed to me to be SO much like Word (and I hated word!) that I pretty much dismissed it immediately.
I was in an Apple Store one day, wondering what I could ask the trainer.... oh yes....Pages.
Well to my surprise, I discovered that the Page Format environment was actually very like Clarisworks draw environment and once I had realised that I KNEW I could use it easily. What fun I had that night and over the next weeks turning all my old Claris docs in to Pages docs. And of course, with Pages 09 you can even show your docs off on the web for friends and colleagues to comment on!!
All in all a good app!!
Far superior to Word on the Mac, and it even imports Word documents. It's also easy on the eyes and behaves like a Mac app should (not zooming to random sizes like Word does).