In a Word dominated world, nothing less than 100% Word compatibility will do for people who publish professionally, and Pages isn't near close enough. This is what people mean when they say that 'Pages isn't enough'.

For those of us who need to actually use a Word Processor for a living, its not up to the job sadly. I never understood what they meant.Įver had to submit a Word Document for publication in a journal or a book? Ever had to produce a format specific galley proof from a Word Document template given to you by a publisher? No? Then Pages will be fine for you. In fact every time somebody says '.but still for serious word-processing needs Pages isn't enough' or something along those lines.

You just can't do it any other way! But you can in Pages. After using it for some time I understood the reason behind putting the zillion spaces on a line to straighten things up. And the bottom line is that you just can't produce a document that looks neat and good and professional in Word. It's a beast that deserves to die along with all its disgusting proprietary formats that nobody (including Microsoft with its Mac Office) can properly decrypt. No, I'm never ever going to touch Office again. It was a horrible experience! I couldn't make the line spacing right (the lines would just get cropped in half instead of shrinking the white space), found it was really hard to navigate through the ribbon to find the function I wanted and finally there was no 'Save As'! I had to manually add a button to the ribbon to make such a simple operation happen. In fact had to use the newest Word with the ribbon interface on a Windows machine. For me Pages is far far more advanced than Word.

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