Carl, yes it is sad that they don't send user guides with the software anymore - just those little pamphlets "Getting started". What they should include, though, is a reference to the url that has the complete user guide as a pdf file. It took my fiddling, then Jerry's finding the url, before I found the manual. Of course I don't want to wear out my printer with 250 pages, but I at least can now print out or refer to those steps I am not familiar with. I am not exactly sure that the iWorks programs are hyperintuitive. Will find out. -- Und Herr Freeman, wo haben Sie denn Deutsch gelernt? Ihr Gehirn is sehr gro?. Sogar Googling will gelernt sein. Marta
On Mar 11, 2006, at 8:48, Carl Wimmer wrote: > Jerry is right about the manuals shrinking. I have used Keynote since > 1.0. It's original manual (I hoard old stuff) was 6" x 9", 100 pages, > included a reference card. iWork 1.0 included 5" x 6" manuals for > Pages and Keynote, 168 pages; about the same amt. of info; still had > the reference cards. > > iWorks 2.0 manuals are flimsy 4" x 5" jobs and no reference cards. The > boxes are shrinking, of course. IMHO, Apple, like others, are moving > to online help, PDF's, etc. and saving the forests by shorting users > on written manuals. Things change, not always for the better depending > on your point of view, are becoming universal. > > Marta, the really good news is that using the iWork programs is > hyperintuitive. Do go over the intro manuals then play around with > simple projects. In no time you will be very pleased with the results. > The full integration of iApps via the media browser is worth the price > of admission. I recently used Keynote for a class that spanned 4 > hours. My boring dissertation was made tolerable by movies, iTunes > music, and pictures from iPhoto as well as graphics I made or got off > the web and dragged into iPhoto, then into my Keynote. It was > amazingly simple and looked great. > > The 4 page synopsis distributed to students, done in Pages, using the > same notes and graphics took me about 15 minutes to complete. Pages is > not just a word processor, but a journeyman desktop publisher. > > The only complaint I have is navigating the Inspector. It is not as > intuitive as the program overall; slows me down a bit. But for under > $80 (less for educators) it is a steal with or without paper manuals. > And for those who must use older, slower equipment (e.g. G3 iMacs), > the resources required by iWorks are small enough to not be a problem. > > ctw > > On Mar 10, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > >> The links were for PDF's of "the measly little booklet". Your first >> post lead me to believe you had missed placed the "measly little >> booklet". Apple?amongst many others?are leaving the manual writing to >> third parties Missing Manual and QuickStart series authors, simply >> because most people never RTFM?in this case?MLB. >> >> I notice a transition in the online AW Usergroups towards the iWork >> Usergroup..jf >> >> On Mar 10, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >> >>> I have pages 2 ( iWork 6) and I have this measly booklet "Getting >>> started" which tells me actually nothing. I never used Appleworks >>> for anything else but writing an article or a letter, and I thought >>> now before passing into the Elysian Fields, I would like to use >>> Pages more extensively, as it does correct as you type, a feature >>> very necessary for my hands not feeling whether I press a key or >>> just imagine having pressed it. And hose help menus are a pain --- > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
