suggestions for something better then Pages?

Count me among those legions who aren't happy with current version of Pages. afaiac, MS Word had everything I needed in a full-featured word handler.

I'm going to dl Apache's Open Office for Mac and see what happens.

Recommendations? tia.

I've been using Libre Office, which meets my needs. It is fairly good at importing MS .docx documents although the display of contained graphics from those documents can be screwed up. You can save your documents in the native .odt formats or use the standard Microsoft ones.

fezopolis said:

...MS Word had everything I needed in a full-featured word handler.

Recommendations? tia.

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Recommendations??...sure. If you like MS Word...then purchase MS Office!

- Nick

Office 2011 is the go. If you go this way make sure to update to the latest version 14.3.9.

harryb2448 said:

Office 2011 is the go. If you go this way make sure to update to the latest version 14.3.9.

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x2. I played around with alternatives for a while. Eventually, I just bought Office for Mac Home & Student 2011. It was only about $100 and I use it all the time for work, legal documents, etc... It's actually the only non-free application I run on my Mac.

XJ-linux said:

x2. I played around with alternatives for a while. Eventually, I just bought Office for Mac Home & Student 2011. It was only about $100 and I use it all the time for work, legal documents, etc... It's actually the only non-free application I run on my Mac.

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Sadly I had to go and do the same as everything my Solicitor sent me, always got higgilty piggilty messed up on my MBP, then when I went to send her a .pages doc, saved as a .docx, she could get some of the graphic either :-<

I don't think they will ever be 100% compatible, and I think every Mac user will have to have both, unfortunately . . .

And... Microsoft has promised us Mac Office 2014 before the end of the year. But expect the price to be the same or higher for a single install version as it was for the 3 install version I bought of Mac Office 2011.

I routinely send .doc/.docx documents created in Pages to PC-using colleagues. Never a problem, with graphics or text, in word processing documents. The secret is to limit yourself to one of the eight boring fonts MS uses as standards.

For "desktop publishing" type documents, I send files out as either PDF or ePub. Again, no issues.