Word Processors, was Re: first mac perchus

2011-01-07 Thread Brianna Snyder
Hi, I'm glad that the topic of word processors came up. I see that TextEdit will be good for paper writing, as far as double spacing, and font changes. However, I was wondering if there was a way to get it to put in page numbers, or to see what page you are on in a multi-paged document. I'm

Re: Word Processors, was Re: first mac perchus

2011-01-07 Thread Ryan Mann
I just checked out Pages today and I noticed that there is a way to insert page numbers. On Jan 7, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Brianna Snyder wrote: Hi, I'm glad that the topic of word processors came up. I see that TextEdit will be good for paper writing, as far as double spacing, and font

Re: Word Processors, was Re: first mac perchus

2011-01-07 Thread Sara Waggle
Text Edit is not very sophisticated it's comparable to Wordpad/notepad. But it's great place to just write and change fonts and stuff like that. Something I do frequently is write in TextEdit and convert to Pages. But the Bean program might do more to. I'm going to download this thing and

Re: Word Processors, was Re: first mac perchus

2011-01-07 Thread Sara Waggle
Sorry, it doesn't seem as though you can do page numbers with Bean. However, it seems to have more capabilities than text edit. On Jan 7, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Brianna Snyder wrote: Hi, I'm glad that the topic of word processors came up. I see that TextEdit will be good for paper

Re: Word Processors, was Re: first mac perchus

2011-01-07 Thread Kevin Shaw
Brianna, I completed my master's thesis by using Pages on the Mac. Once you get the hang of working in Pages, you'll be fine. I was even able to mark up the document with ehaders, a table of contents and include all of my references. Kevin -- You received this message because you are

Re: Word Processors, was Re: first mac perchus

2011-01-07 Thread Ryan Mann
How did you reliably check the formatting of your text? I was trying out Pages earlier today and when I hit vo+t to check the text attributes, all I heard was a bong from the computer speakers. On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:21 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote: Brianna, I completed my master's thesis by using