Erik: Thanks so much for your Excellent Comparison. Really you make me know what to decide. I will stay with Mac and start put more concentration into Pages
On 2/24/17, Erik Burggraaf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > Sent with AquaMail for Android > http://www.aqua-mail.com > > > 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. >> >> >> -- >> Ramy MoustafaSaber >> Music instructor @: >> Faculty ofmusical education >> Music arranger and Sound engineer @: >> Harmony Recording Studio >> https://www.facebook.com/HarmonyRecordingStudio.eg >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >> if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners >> >> or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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