Trouble is that no matter how good Pages is, I cannot use it because documents will not open in Word ( the latest version), but agree about Pages styles.
Bill On 13/04/2012, at 7:53 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > On 12/04/2012, at 9:07 AM, Tim law wrote: > >> A courageous article!! >> >> Fortunately the OSX version I use, 12 I think, doesn't have the same AWFUL >> bloated toolbars of the PC version. >> >> Where Word failed for me this week was when I tried to PDF a 155 page report >> that included a lot of internal cross reference links. Epic fail to send any >> of the hot links into the PDF format. >> >> I opened the document in OSX Pages, saved it as a PDF and voila, all links >> worked properly when PDF'd. If only Pages did styles and stylesheets better >> it'd be an able replacement for Word for my report writing work. >> >> Tim >> > > Funny, isn't it? If there's one thing that I had to pick out of all the > things I prefer in Pages over Word, it would be the way it handles styles. I > find Pages' way of doing it so much easier and more intuitive. > > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>