Comments on: Apple Pages ‘08 VS. Microsoft Word 2008 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2008/04/apple-pages-08-vs-microsoft-word-2008/ the supremely self-righteous website of Nima Yousefi Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:00:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Edward Southerland http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2008/04/apple-pages-08-vs-microsoft-word-2008/#comment-1154 Edward Southerland Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:41:12 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/?p=766#comment-1154 <p>I am the editor of a magazine and do a lot of mark up of documents when dealing with writers. I use Word 2003, but I am considering getting an Apple and trying IWorks. If I import a Word doc into Pages and then marked it up, saved it back to Word and sent it to the writer, would he be able to read the mark up comments without difficulty?</p> <p>Good article by the way. Very useful.</p> I am the editor of a magazine and do a lot of mark up of documents when dealing with writers. I use Word 2003, but I am considering getting an Apple and trying IWorks. If I import a Word doc into Pages and then marked it up, saved it back to Word and sent it to the writer, would he be able to read the mark up comments without difficulty?

Good article by the way. Very useful.

]]> By: Vlad Grigore http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2008/04/apple-pages-08-vs-microsoft-word-2008/#comment-1153 Vlad Grigore Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:14:41 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/?p=766#comment-1153 <p>Thank you for the useful review. Since we are spending so much time on word processing, I thought it would be worthwhile to mention that the possessive form of its has no apostrophe. </p> <p>For example, it's embarassing for an article about word processing not to have its grammar correct.</p> <p>Just a thought.</p> Thank you for the useful review. Since we are spending so much time on word processing, I thought it would be worthwhile to mention that the possessive form of its has no apostrophe.

For example, it’s embarassing for an article about word processing not to have its grammar correct.

Just a thought.

]]> By: Jeffrey Wishik http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2008/04/apple-pages-08-vs-microsoft-word-2008/#comment-1141 Jeffrey Wishik Thu, 08 May 2008 20:36:47 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/?p=766#comment-1141 <p>I spent a few minutes at the local Apple store yesterday. I need to click on the "Show Invisibles" option in Pages to see if that solves the problem. If not, I'll return next week with my MBP and the Word document in question so that a tech person can look at this. </p> <p>I was told that if Pages cannot do what I want, they'll let me return iWork for a full refund. They will also see if Word '08 for Mac opens the document correctly.</p> <p>So, maybe not so bad after all.</p> I spent a few minutes at the local Apple store yesterday. I need to click on the “Show Invisibles” option in Pages to see if that solves the problem. If not, I’ll return next week with my MBP and the Word document in question so that a tech person can look at this.

I was told that if Pages cannot do what I want, they’ll let me return iWork for a full refund. They will also see if Word ‘08 for Mac opens the document correctly.

So, maybe not so bad after all.

]]> By: Nima http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2008/04/apple-pages-08-vs-microsoft-word-2008/#comment-1140 Nima Thu, 08 May 2008 01:41:03 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/?p=766#comment-1140 <p>Sorry, but I've got no idea, but it doesn't sound surprising that this happened to you. Pages really is much, much weaker when it comes to templates. It just doesn't touch Word's power.</p> <p>Sorry you got screwed. :(</p> Sorry, but I’ve got no idea, but it doesn’t sound surprising that this happened to you. Pages really is much, much weaker when it comes to templates. It just doesn’t touch Word’s power.

Sorry you got screwed. :(

]]> By: Jeffrey Wishik http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2008/04/apple-pages-08-vs-microsoft-word-2008/#comment-1139 Jeffrey Wishik Wed, 07 May 2008 21:34:33 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/?p=766#comment-1139 <p>I write some medicolegal reports using MS Office Word 2003 (on my PC in the office) with a template containing fields. Some of the fields are filled in when I enter information at the onset; others are blanks to make it easier to navigate between the boilerplate text.</p> <p>I have tried to open the document in Pages'08 at home on my new MacBookPro but all of the empty fields are gone. The data entered into fields are there, but I cannot toggle between the data and the field codes. It seems that Pages cannot accept the field codes from Word (for PC).</p> <p>Any thoughts about this? If I had known that Pages wouldn't allow me to use my existing Word templates I would not have purchased iWork but would have gotten Office for Mac instead.</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <p>Jeff Wishik</p> I write some medicolegal reports using MS Office Word 2003 (on my PC in the office) with a template containing fields. Some of the fields are filled in when I enter information at the onset; others are blanks to make it easier to navigate between the boilerplate text.

I have tried to open the document in Pages’08 at home on my new MacBookPro but all of the empty fields are gone. The data entered into fields are there, but I cannot toggle between the data and the field codes. It seems that Pages cannot accept the field codes from Word (for PC).

Any thoughts about this? If I had known that Pages wouldn’t allow me to use my existing Word templates I would not have purchased iWork but would have gotten Office for Mac instead.

Thank you.

Jeff Wishik

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