First look at Pages

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says....I hope that those of you pointing out the things you don't like about Pages are sending feedback to Apple about it - that is the best way to get stuff added and fixed in v1.01, 1.02 etc etc.....oh yeah!

 

[jamdr]

Thank the gods! I want to throw Word out the window when it does this to me. If I'm making an outline, I'll tell my computer I'm making an outline. I don't want it making those decisions for me - and making it difficult for me to put things back that it misinterpretted.

Amen!!! I swear if Apple adds this "feature" I will throw my Mac out the window and never use a piece of Apple software again.

1. Doesn't recognise and automatically insert bullet points.
2. If I type 24th December, I expect the th to be superscripted for me. It isn't.
3. Inspector seems quite powerful, but is woefully inadequate. I can't have a full square block as a bullet. It isn't context sensitive. If I am typing a list with bullet points, Inspector makes no attempt to show me the options I have. Word opens up a new box showing me all the things I can do with bullet points. Inspector makes you click through.
4. Beachballs like crazy, which is something I've read on Apple Support too. Maybe a permissions thing, maybe not, definitely machine-specific.
5. Uses the god-awful generic font palette that other Cocoa apps use. That thing is just plain atrocious, and should not have made it into a program where you may change font a lot.

I will buy Pages just because of these reasons (well, except 4, but I didn't notice any problem with that when I tried it at Macworld). I don't want my damn word processor to format anything for me--not dates, not lists, nothing. And I like the standard font chooser, it adds uniformity across many of Apple's products.