Interesting, reading Eric's message I would be more tempted to use the
Microsoft products. I regularly though not intensely use Microsoft on Windows
and MacOS and also occasionally bring up Pages. Some of your decision needs to
be based on how much you need to collaborate with others and how complex your
documents need to be.
Both Pages and Word provide support for Styles which you should use to ensure
consistent layouts.
Eric did mention a philosophy difference between Pages and Word that might be
useful to think about.
Essentially, word is very article centric, so it is good at creating a single
story, but if you wanted to create a newspaper or magazine it would be
difficult at best. Pages tries to be able to handle the layouts of complex
documents more cohesively though that would be difficult for a blind person to
do. I believe the Word philosophy is to make publishers use Adobe InDesign or
Microsoft Publisher to combine multiple articles into a publication or web
page, but then Word gets too complex if you are going to use a finishing tool
like Publisher or InDesign, and one might be better off using textedit or
Ulysses. Though I have not tried Ulysses it probably would be a great writing
tool for the low vision community.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
isher
> On Feb 24, 2017, at 8:03 AM, Erik Burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote:
>
> Ultimately this is up to you, though you will have a bit of a learning curve
> regardless since you are considering a move to office 2016.
>
> Pages gives you a similar range of short cut keys to office. Both allow you
> to track changes, spell check inline, and read format attributes. Both
> provide access to headings, tables, lists and other formatting. I'mm not
> impressed with ribbons in office, even after 10 years of exposure, but I
> don't care for the pages info peigns either, and I'm not a huge fan of the
> multi-leveled approach to layout taken by pages. Both approaches toward
> making a lot of options available really don't serve the blind or low vision
> well at all, though they are fully accessible and usible.
>
> One advantage to office is it's handling of word documents. At some point
> three to five years ago I think, apple decided it didn't want you working on
> anything other than it's own formats. While not exactly revoking office
> format support, they've put a multi-step export process in place in stead of
> a convenient inline saving option to make it inconvenient to use office
> formats. Pages format itself is quite bloated, incompatible with anything
> except for pages, and so far, it hasn't offered me key features I can't get
> by using word format in pages. I was willing to tolerate the inconvenience
> of exporting to word for the benefit of not using windows. I have decided
> that windows is not for me and nothing I've seen in the last five years has
> convinced me that the benefits outweigh any of the drawbacks. I try to keep
> on top of my windows knowledge a bit because I may have to support it in a
> workplace, but that's about it. Overall, I could not imagine trading a good
> mac for a cheep windows machine, especially if you need to upgrade a jaws
> licence in order to take advantage of modern software compatibility.
>
> There's my broad stroke assessment. If you have specific questions, feel
> free to ask.
>
> Best,
>
> Erik
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> On February 24, 2017 6:49:04 AM Ramy Moustafa <ramy.moustaf...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all my friends:
>> I need your expert Advice, as you know i have my Macbook, and am
>> running pages on it, all i need from my laptop is to write my
>> Researches inside my Colledge, and i bought the pages book, to study,
>> But am thinking all the time even before studying, what is the best really?
>> I finished my master research with My Old Laptop running even Ms
>> Office 2003, and I studied all it's features etc, so now, will Pages
>> will give me more features and eas to use, that will make me study an
>> app from the very beginning? Or, i can sell my macbook, and buy a new
>> Windows 10 Laptop , even i can buy small Notebook, just to use this in
>> my Colledge?
>> I will use the Ms office 2016, i know every feature and will start now.
>> i need your experiences please
>> Thanks for your input and for your efforts.
>>
>>
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