I think time will come when Pages documents will open in MS Word. Give Apple time.
Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 12/04/2012, at 10:28 PM, Philippe Chaperon wrote: > Good evening All, > > Thank you Ronni for the link to the article and for Tim's supporting > comments. > > I have to say that if Word does go down I will not miss it terribly although > I do use it due to old habits I guess, but would not call it a 'heap of > junk'! I too find that it is nowadays so bloated that it has become difficult > to learn and to use, and for me it has lost whatever intuitiveness it ever > had. > > In desperation I purchased Pages about a year or so ago and am still testing > it on mostly one or two pages documents. So far so good - a clean, very easy > software to learn and use. > > There is also an alternative word processor which I have been using, on and > off, for many years now and have proved to be extremely reliable, Mellel. > Though my word processing requirement these days is very modest, about two or > possibly four pages only, I understand that Mellel is very good for lengthy > articles, reports etc. I would be curious to know how Mellel will perform in > Tim's situation with his 155 page documents and cross references. > > For those curious you can get more info on Mellel at: > > http://www.redlers.com/ > > By the way, Mellel has been on Apple's platform ever since I started using > Macintosh, and that is many long years ago. > > Good night everyone & regards, > > Philippe > > 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 >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 12/04/2012, at 8:21 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> Death Of Microsoft Word: >>> >>> "Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete >>> assumptions about technology. Tom Scocca believes it's time we all gave it >>> up." >>> >>> <http://www.watoday.com.au/digital-life/hometech/death-to-microsoft-word-20120412-1wta8.html> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> Sent from Ronni's iPad >>> >>> -- 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> > > > > > -- 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>
