I Love Quality Software: Apple’s Pages
Technology November 13th, 2006I love Apple’s Pages. Sure, it’s missing tons of features from Microsoft Word. But what it does, it does well, and its got a fast and easy to use interface. Styles seem to work better than with Word.
Of course, I need to work with my Microsoft Word colleagues from time-to-time. I exported a Pages document to Word format today, and I was very pleasantly surprised to see that my Pages comments were also converted over to Word comments:
I assumed the comments would be lost. It’s the attention to details (like getting an exporter to work really well) that matter to me. Details, details, details.
November 14th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
only apple can manage to charge for a half-implemented word-processor in the third millenium.
November 15th, 2006 at 7:08 am
Hey, I’m so excited to see some innovation in a word processor after dealing with basically unchanged MS Word for nearly a decade I’ll take the good with the bad.
I think Pages and Keynote are partly responsible for inspiring the much redesigned Office 2007 (which though I have several of the betas I haven’t touched yet).