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WIN 7 & MS Office 2010 on a MAC
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<blockquote data-quote="Thymen" data-source="post: 1542507" data-attributes="member: 243742"><p>If you are very used to Word..... get Word! If you want to use Pages, there will be a considerate amount of re-learning to do. I have both, and although I obtained Word first, Pages is not too expensive not to give it a try. So I got that as well.</p><p></p><p>For instance, I rely heavily on styles to format an number my documents. And I prefer to have my applications maximized (NOT: full screen). So when in Pages for the first time, I chose 'Show Styles Drawer' to begin setting up my paragraph styles, but nothing came up. Took me ages, and I finally found that the drawer is located OUTSIDE the Pages window itself.... not visible when that window is maximised to fill the display.</p><p></p><p>And heading numbering is achieved differently from Word. Tables of Contents...... could'n figure out how to do that, until I search the Internetz and found a Pages TOC only looks FORWARD. Meaning, put your TOC on page one, not on the last page, for then it will be empty!</p><p></p><p>There are may Pages-specific quirks that you need to learn and get used to. People that started to use Pages before Word will have learned these from the beginning, but re-learning/switching is not easy and might take more time then you would like.</p><p></p><p>However, if you have more then one Mac, then a single Pages license, cheap as it is already, can be installed on all of your systems without additional cost. Compare that to Word, which is not only five times more expensive, but requires a license for each and every computer you want to have it installed on...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thymen, post: 1542507, member: 243742"] If you are very used to Word..... get Word! If you want to use Pages, there will be a considerate amount of re-learning to do. I have both, and although I obtained Word first, Pages is not too expensive not to give it a try. So I got that as well. For instance, I rely heavily on styles to format an number my documents. And I prefer to have my applications maximized (NOT: full screen). So when in Pages for the first time, I chose 'Show Styles Drawer' to begin setting up my paragraph styles, but nothing came up. Took me ages, and I finally found that the drawer is located OUTSIDE the Pages window itself.... not visible when that window is maximised to fill the display. And heading numbering is achieved differently from Word. Tables of Contents...... could'n figure out how to do that, until I search the Internetz and found a Pages TOC only looks FORWARD. Meaning, put your TOC on page one, not on the last page, for then it will be empty! There are may Pages-specific quirks that you need to learn and get used to. People that started to use Pages before Word will have learned these from the beginning, but re-learning/switching is not easy and might take more time then you would like. However, if you have more then one Mac, then a single Pages license, cheap as it is already, can be installed on all of your systems without additional cost. Compare that to Word, which is not only five times more expensive, but requires a license for each and every computer you want to have it installed on... [/QUOTE]
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