Ultimately this is up to you, though you will have a bit of a learning
curve regardless since you are considering a move to office 2016.
Pages gives you a similar range of short cut keys to office. Both allow
you to track changes, spell check inline, and read format attributes. Both
provide access to headings, tables, lists and other formatting. I'mm not
impressed with ribbons in office, even after 10 years of exposure, but I
don't care for the pages info peigns either, and I'm not a huge fan of the
multi-leveled approach to layout taken by pages. Both approaches toward
making a lot of options available really don't serve the blind or low
vision well at all, though they are fully accessible and usible.
One advantage to office is it's handling of word documents. At some point
three to five years ago I think, apple decided it didn't want you working
on anything other than it's own formats. While not exactly revoking office
format support, they've put a multi-step export process in place in stead
of a convenient inline saving option to make it inconvenient to use office
formats. Pages format itself is quite bloated, incompatible with anything
except for pages, and so far, it hasn't offered me key features I can't get
by using word format in pages. I was willing to tolerate the inconvenience
of exporting to word for the benefit of not using windows. I have decided
that windows is not for me and nothing I've seen in the last five years has
convinced me that the benefits outweigh any of the drawbacks. I try to
keep on top of my windows knowledge a bit because I may have to support it
in a workplace, but that's about it. Overall, I could not imagine trading
a good mac for a cheep windows machine, especially if you need to upgrade a
jaws licence in order to take advantage of modern software compatibility.
There's my broad stroke assessment. If you have specific questions, feel
free to ask.
Best,
Erik
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On February 24, 2017 6:49:04 AM Ramy Moustafa <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello all my friends:
I need your expert Advice, as you know i have my Macbook, and am
running pages on it, all i need from my laptop is to write my
Researches inside my Colledge, and i bought the pages book, to study,
But am thinking all the time even before studying, what is the best really?
I finished my master research with My Old Laptop running even Ms
Office 2003, and I studied all it's features etc, so now, will Pages
will give me more features and eas to use, that will make me study an
app from the very beginning? Or, i can sell my macbook, and buy a new
Windows 10 Laptop , even i can buy small Notebook, just to use this in
my Colledge?
I will use the Ms office 2016, i know every feature and will start now.
i need your experiences please
Thanks for your input and for your efforts.
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