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Which Word Processor do you use?
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Student at a UK uni. I spend ages in the faculty and often just carry a 13" MBP, so the more work I can get done without a power cable the better! Word 2008 eats up significantly more battery life than Pages '09, but I have no idea about Word 2011.
Ah, right. Understandable. I can plug my MB in when in my office in the Law School (I'm a Lecturer), so that's a non-issue for me.
MS Word. I want to know that my documents will look right when someone else opens them on a PC. I am pretty excited about Office Mac 2011. It looks like it will be a great program. I am not much of a Microsoft fan, but Office is a good program and I judge a program more by its content then the company that made it.
Sorry, my bad. I mean the '07 version.
You are funny. The 2007 version is also windows only. The latest Mac version is 2008. (not that it really matters...)
I love Apple Pages.
I like it over MS Office because the interface is clean, and keeps the stuff I actually use right in the tool bar. Its also easy to rearrange pages after you typed them by dragging the thumbnails around. MS Office does not have this to my knowledge. (If it does, its hard to find because I had to copy and paste to move stuff around in office). The excuse I heard online was "Its because its a word processor not a layout program." Um...you don't think people would need to do that on 30+ page documents?
I know Pages doesn't have everything office does but for me it works better, its a cleaner interface, and just all around pleasant to use. I hate typing papers anyway but Pages makes it easy for me.
I like it over MS Office because the interface is clean, and keeps the stuff I actually use right in the tool bar. Its also easy to rearrange pages after you typed them by dragging the thumbnails around. MS Office does not have this to my knowledge. (If it does, its hard to find because I had to copy and paste to move stuff around in office). The excuse I heard online was "Its because its a word processor not a layout program." Um...you don't think people would need to do that on 30+ page documents?
I know Pages doesn't have everything office does but for me it works better, its a cleaner interface, and just all around pleasant to use. I hate typing papers anyway but Pages makes it easy for me.
So what? People don't make mistakes?Why don't you just use TextEdit then? Why even bother with Pages or Word in the first place?
I use Word on a Mac in the office (just because it's what I'm given to work with) and Word on a PC at home. In theory it seems like a good idea to use the same program in each location - except that the PC version just reminds me how clunky Word is on a Mac, especially since I "upgraded" to Snow Leopard (See my separate post).
I do like the fact that Word is virtually an industry standard.
Maybe I'll persuade my office to get me a PC version and run it through Parallels!
I do like the fact that Word is virtually an industry standard.
Maybe I'll persuade my office to get me a PC version and run it through Parallels!
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Office:Mac 2011, if the demos are typical, will finally see the performance gap between the Windows and Mac versions narrow. It's out in November. I would advise you hold off on a Parallels purchase until then.
Mind you, looking at your other post you are currently running a PowerPC-only version of Office:Mac through OSX's built-in processor emulation. No wonder it's slow and clunky compared to the Windows version you use. Seriously, wait until the new version hits and download the trial. You'll be amazed at just how much quicker it is than what you are using now.
Office:Mac 2011, if the demos are typical, will finally see the performance gap between the Windows and Mac versions narrow. It's out in November. I would advise you hold off on a Parallels purchase until then.
Mind you, looking at your other post you are currently running a PowerPC-only version of Office:Mac through OSX's built-in processor emulation. No wonder it's slow and clunky compared to the Windows version you use. Seriously, wait until the new version hits and download the trial. You'll be amazed at just how much quicker it is than what you are using now.
That's about where I'm coming from, except I'd say I hardly ever even need to use Pages. Maybe 95% of the time I just use TextWrangler or TextEdit.
Why don't you just use TextEdit then? Why even bother with Pages or Word in the first place?
For short-form writing, I normally use WriteRoom. I use Word for longer academic pieces for several reasons, but primarily compatibility with everyone else that I work with.
And of course people make mistakes. But they should not be the sort of mistakes that are caught by a word processor.