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
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