Re: Anyone use Apples Pages as a total replacement for MS Word?

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From: Emma Grey
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:30

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In article <2006100200455375249-jcrnospam@nospammaccom>, John C.
Randolph <jcr.nospam@nospam.mac.com> wrote:

> On 2006-10-01 15:03:54 -0700, ChrisHollandisback@yahoo.com said:
> 
> > Just been watching the tutorial on Lynda.com - it's actually a very
> > good piece of software
> 
> For documents I'm writing myself, I use TextEdit, Pages, and Nisus 
> Writer depending on the situation.  When someone sends me an MS word 
> document, I use OpenOffice.
> 
> -jcr
> 

Anything BUT Pages!! I've found (the recent) NeoOffice more reliable,
especially in conjunction with the odious-but-inescapable
Windows/MSWord situations. But you need a goodly supply of patience!

But Pages was SO slow spelling, I started to copy the text back to
TextEdit for spellcheck. A waste of money. The good thing is: it's led
me to discover I can keep working within BBEdit for much longer in the
process (with some assistence from AppleScript) and to separate my
textual intent from mere cosmetic appearance - an increasingly relevant
point for (hyper)text. And it seems to work out quicker in the end.

Emma

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Subject: Re: Anyone use Apples Pages as a total replacement for MS Word?
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