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Don't buy Pages, It's HORRIBLE!
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1. .doc files are usually the only accepted format for most things
2. PDF's are useless for work items since people cant change them
3. PDF's usually exceed file size limits when trying to send things to a corporate website
Yes, if you have any formatting thats fancier than paragraph indentation then it will very likely look really messed up when opened in Word.
I fully disagree. I got word and it was a buggy, incompatable pile o rubbish.
Pages was cheaper, more compatible and ran a lot more smoother.
So apple hasn't dumbed its .doc conversion enough?
Will be careful in the future.
With both applications hidden on an '07 MacBook Pro with 2GB RAM:
Click Pages icon and it takes 10 seconds for Pages to come up and show the file selector screen. Select Blank and it takes 5 seconds to create an empty document. 15 seconds to get a blank file.
Hide it again and repeat. It takes 4 seconds for the process.
Click Word icon and it takes <1 sec to bring the selector screen. Click Blank and an empty document appears in < 1 second. Word is consistently "instant".
Pages is consistantly, substantially slow in basic file manipulations compared to Word on my Mac or my office PC. Saving files in pages? Word is instant; Pages takes seconds.
I find Numbers irritatingly slow to update its Inspector as I move around the screen, selecting different objects. My coworker tells me that it's painfully slow in manipulating data sets with just a few thousand entries.
I use iWork for personal stuff at home. It's cheaper and has some nice usability features. But it's objectively slower than Office in some basic things for some of us.
That is impossible because Office 2008 for Mac still has PPC code remnants. No way can it launch faster than iWork '09.
Why are people so emotional about a freaking word processor?!
I use Pages and love it. Far easier to use than Word. But it is extremely obvious that if you are collaboratively working with people who have Word or people on a PC that you would be better off with Word yourself.
One last thing, look at the difference in price between the two.
I use Pages and love it. Far easier to use than Word. But it is extremely obvious that if you are collaboratively working with people who have Word or people on a PC that you would be better off with Word yourself.
One last thing, look at the difference in price between the two.
I prefer Pages over Word, but my needs are very simple. If I was a "power user" of word processing software, I'd probably choose Word.
I think Pages is MUCH easier. Especially if you're already familiar with Keynote and/or Numbers (which I also prefer over their Microsoft counterparts). There's just so much great continuity between the apps. If you know one, you pretty much know them all.
I think Pages is MUCH easier. Especially if you're already familiar with Keynote and/or Numbers (which I also prefer over their Microsoft counterparts). There's just so much great continuity between the apps. If you know one, you pretty much know them all.
Except Office '04 is faster on the same computer.Think that's your 'puter Dave, and not iWork...iWork is "instant" for me.
And a coworker has the same comments with a 1-yr old MacBook.
I'm comparing to 2004. I don't know about straight launch time. But Pages takes a while to create a new document and Word is instant. And when both applications have been hidden and inactive for a few minutes, Pages (and Numbers) takes ~15 seconds to figure itself out, while Word is instant.
I like iWork on the whole. It's good "budget" software for personal use. But I wish it wasn't so sluggish at times.
Dude that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. So what if it has extra architecture code?
Dude, if you're implying Word is better.... geesh
Keynote is the ****, Powerpoint can't hold a candle to it.
actually my experience is pretty much the other way around. unless you need some features that word has and are not implemented into pages
There is something wrong with either your OS or your installation of iWork (or like some weird font cache issue), because that simply should not be the case. Pages et al should be instant, it should be even when you're creating a new document but absolutely when you go from hidden to active.
Since I posted this, I started to like Pages a little more I guess. I've just done everything on word my whole life. I'm going to get windows 7 and put it on my mac, I have a copy of Office and its cheaper for me to buy the new OS for 30(student).