Curiouser and Curiouser! on iwork http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic iwork Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Getting along with Pages Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:13:29 +0100 <p>As part of my switch to MacOSX I bought a copy of <a href="http://www.apple.com/iwork/">iWork</a> which includes Pages and KeyNote. I bought it for KeyNote which looks (in everything except slide sorting) a nicer application than PowerPoint. However I've been using Pages a lot in the last month and it is a very capable replacement for Word for everything I do with documents.</p> <p>My one Pages bugaboo (and the thing which might force me to buy Word for Mac) is that it's Word support doesn't extend to the comments and "track changes" features. If, as I do, you work collaboratively on propositions, specifications, and white papers this is can be a problem.</p> <p>Pages will import/export from Word format quite well so my current approach is to export Word from Pages and send out a document for review. Then open the returned documents in Word on my Windows desktop where I go through the comments and make the appropriate amendments in the Pages document.</p> <p>This is workable but far from ideal. I'm hoping Pages will support multi-author features soon.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002793.html