On 13/04/2012, at 8:27 AM, Tim Law wrote:
Pages also does not seem to handle nested numbered paragraphs as well as Word
does.
For example numbering such as 7.18.241 as in my latest tome.
Pages will go to the second level, but not the third, yet come to think of
it, it handled the
when PDF'd. If only Pages did styles and stylesheets better
it'd be an able replacement for Word for my report writing work.
Tim
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On 12/04/2012, at 8:21 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
Death Of Microsoft Word:
Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient
Word:
Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete
assumptions about technology. Tom Scocca believes it's time we all gave it
up.
http://www.watoday.com.au/digital-life/hometech/death-to-microsoft-word-20120412-1wta8.html
Cheers,
Ronni
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Pages did styles and stylesheets better
it'd be an able replacement for Word for my report writing work.
Tim
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On 12/04/2012, at 8:21 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
Death Of Microsoft Word:
Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete
On 12/04/2012, at 9:07 AM, Tim law wrote:
A courageous article!!
Fortunately the OSX version I use, 12 I think, doesn't have the same AWFUL
bloated toolbars of the PC version.
Where Word failed for me this week was when I tried to PDF a 155 page report
that included a lot of internal
Trouble is that no matter how good Pages is, I cannot use it because documents
will not open in Word ( the latest version), but agree about Pages styles.
Bill
On 13/04/2012, at 7:53 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
On 12/04/2012, at 9:07 AM, Tim law wrote:
A courageous article!!
Fortunately
Hi Bill,
Pages’09 will open Word Documents, it also can export as Word documents.
How are you trying to open the Word documents?
Try dragging the Word document onto Pages or Right-Click / Control-click
Open with…
Select a .doc file in Finder Menu Get Info Open With: Other browse to
Okay Peter and Bill, Thanks for the prompts
Looks like I'll need to take a deep breath and see if I can become comfortable
with Pages styles and paragraph management.
I think what I miss is the ability to type in numbers to define the style as in
Word.
In Pages, it seems that you have to
Hi Tim,
I understand your frustration coming from using Word to Pages. I’ve never used
Word, but still have not mastered Pages even though I really like Pages App and
all the iWork applications :-) I need to spend much more time learning Pages.
Have you downloaded the “Pages’09 User Guide PDF”
can i have some comments about libre office, open office, neo office? i'm using
neo office for my admin tech drawing work
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Ronni
I have Pages 08 so I suppose that's why it doesn't work. Its the Pages to Word
that I would need and because the bulk of people I work with use Word I will
have to stick with that bloat and all!
Bill
On 13/04/2012, at 8:09 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Bill,
Pages’09 will open Word
Hi James,
As you probably know the Open Office family of products are fairly close clones
of Microsoft Word before it got the ribbon. They became open source when Sun
Microsystems purchased the German company that developed them and then tidied
up the code for about a year and released it to
Hi Wamuggers
I use Bean which is a free word processor. It opens .doc .docx .odt etc and
documents can be saved in those formats.
I don't know if it is sufficiently sophisticated for some users but I like it.
Cheers
John
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Death Of Microsoft Word:
Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions
about technology. Tom Scocca believes it's time we all gave it up.
http://www.watoday.com.au/digital-life/hometech/death-to-microsoft-word-20120412-1wta8.html
Cheers,
Ronni
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, at 8:21 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
Death Of Microsoft Word:
Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete
assumptions about technology. Tom Scocca believes it's time we all gave it
up.
http://www.watoday.com.au/digital-life/hometech/death-to-microsoft-word
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