Not only does it remove functionality but it removes content from documents! Happily enough it didn't remove Pages '09 (4.3) from my machine when it installed so I can still work around it.
I have a letterhead that I put together and that I've been using for about four years. It's got a 3 column, 1 row table to contain the addresses of the Chair and the Secretary and a small .png file in the middle table. When I open existing documents it deletes the graphic and reports as the image below. Again, happily '09 is still on my laptop as I lost the original graphic years ago and always just duplicated a previous letter for edit. Why would Apple do this? Why not give a health warning at least that the new version will break your old work?
Even more annoyingly, I can copy the graphic from 4.3, paste it into 5.0, save and reopen the document and the graphic's still there. So it can handle the graphic OK, it just deletes it for a laugh!
Also, to answer the original question, yes, hate it. Mostly because it breaks all my previous work and I won't be deleting 4.3 for a long, long time.
Best,
Bill.
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... back to the bad old days when you had to think hard about which version of Word or Excel you had to save work in before emailing it off to somebody. All the wasted hours of asking for saves in earlier versions.
Hugely disappointed that the new software can't just open the old files. I wondered what else doesn't work for a few seconds but then decided just to stick with 4.3. Of course, it means that I can't share that work now as everybody else who's updated to 5 will not be able to use what I send them.
Thank goodness for .pdf at least
pita
Best,
Bill