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• By GoodOldMonkey

  4

  Easier to use than Word, but way less capable

  Pages is still my favorite word processor, mainly because of its clean, attractive interface. A lot of people — I'm thinking Windows fans — seem to go for a cluttered screen full of clashing colors and inscrutable icons, but the Word interface gets me so irritated I lose track of what I'm trying to write. Next to Google docs, Pages is the least distracting to use, and it can do most of what I want. But less than Pages '09, and waaaay less than MS Word — which can handle vertical right-to-left Chinese text, insert images in a mail merge, define multilingual styles, and a heap of other things that keep making me go back to it. Luckily, it's free if you go for an Office 365 account with 1 TB of cloud storage, which is a better buy than Microsoft will ever offer. But I never use Word for work I can do in Pages. All of the digital giants seem to pride themselves on giving you less and worse than they easily could, and Pages is no exception. If Open Office ever gets a decent interface, they'll get my business, but for now, Pages is the best step up from Google Docs for the user without special requirements.

  
  
• By pjh139

  1

  was 5 star right up until 8.1

  I need to note, I’m an author. This is the equlivent of someone coming in and destroying something at your work for 3 days and now you aren’t going to get paid for those and have to redo. That’s why like Crowley, “I’m having a moment here." I just lost 4 hours work because the new install locked up and ate the later file. Somehow it’s now the file I started working on at 12 noon instead of the file I saved at 2 pm, 4 pm. I went to save before the new OS upgrade and it locked up spinning uselessly. I couldn’t even open force quit to get out of it. It locked up the entire computer. I couldn’t even restart the computer. I did have app store open and I told it to restart and install from there. And now when I went to open it at 5 pm after upgrading my OS, it’s back to the 12 noon file. All that work is GONE. I’m livid. DO NOT INSTALL THIS UPGRADE. It’s buggy as hell. Pages continues to lock up. I lost the entire day this time. When I used revert, it told me that I had saved yesterday at 9 pm. It didn’t count the saves I personally did today at 11 a.m, 1:30 pm, 5:30 p.m. and at 12 a.m. Instead it wiped all that work out with NO copies to revert to for today. An entire day this time. Again the LAST update is buggy. DO NOT UPDATE. I’m moving back to Libre Office at this point, I’m tired of losing days worth of work. Label this as DNU

  
  
• By JohnH8203

  4

  PLease create a reference tab for citations

  I am wrtiting this review hoping the developers will see it and make approproate changes to this otherwise wonderful application. I left the Microsoft world many years ago after using iWorks suite and getting used to it's simplicity. The work flow was just faster and more intuitive than MS Word could ever hope to be. Just recently, I was tasked with creating a training manual for a medical facility. I had all the materials I needed however, when it came to citing my research, Pages showed a fatal flaw. I could not get an MLA style in-text citation. I noticed in MS Word, there is a reference tab and you can choose the style of citation. The program will remember and recall it for you. It also places it in a bibliography for you. In any University paper, they will ask for in-text citations. Footnotes, are no longer acceptable as the only form of reference to research materials. Please make reference tab with different styled citation ability, MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.

  
  
• By Emerald-Peri-Belle

  3

  Hopeful at first, but sadly not functional

  Having recently gotten a new PC, I was excited to find a new version of Pages after so many years using the ’09 suite. And while the program is very nice looking and doubtless has many good features, when it came time to do actual work with it, it failed me. I was editing an 80+ page document of both text and images, a project that Pages ’09 handled just fine with no lag issues, and was unable to make even the smallest changes (copying and pasting from another document, changing font/size, even clicking on a block of text) without getting the spinning ball. Things that should have taken 2 seconds took 15+. (I’ve seen other reviews say similar things, so I don’t think it was because the file was converted from ’09.) Ultimately had to use my old computer/go back to ‘09 to do the work. What I’d found to be a perfectly acceptable alternative to Word is now much less functional, fine for short projects and flyers and that sort of thing (I suppose; I’ve only used it a few times) but useless for longer form work. Very sad. ’09 wasn’t broke, and the fixing made it worse instead of better. Will have to look at other alternatives until it improves.

  
  
• By alaskanfrog

  1

  cheap imitation of MS Word...

  I really hate this version of iwork. it's not backwards compatible. any document that's opened and updated works and looks like crap. there is no way to change the header so that the first page is the only one that gets a header. this version of iwork is the worst idea Microsoft has come up with for word processing. it makes fat documents that eat up gobs of megabytes and storage. it's slow to respond and has a whole crap load of bugs that have not been ironed out. Microsoft does an amazing job with putting out glitz, glamor, sparkly glitter and dazling commercials about their products. but their products don't live up to the hype. they are also much more spendy and expensive than windows based programs that do the same thing, but are easier to work and actually function far better. Microsoft has been sending out updates for the Windows desktop owners. with every update my computer is getting slower and slower, and buggier and buggier. It now takes my Windows almost 7 minutes just to boot up, and things aren't loaded properly when its done booting. It takes over 4 minutes to launch firefox and 5 minutes for my email to launch for the first time every single day. With every new software update my computer gets slower and slower. They are trying to force me into buying a new PC, which I won't do...