Q: Pages 5 features checklist
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Oct 18, 2014 12:55 PMby PeterBreis0807,Well here we are over a year later from Pages 5 with Pages 5.5 the most incompatible version of Pages yet.
We have yet another (how many does this make?) incompatible file format. It is only a 0.5 update but none of the previous versions of Pages 5 can open it, certainly none running in Mavericks, let alone all the other versions of OSX.
It can only be opened in Pages 5.5 running only on Yosemite, iOS 8 and iWork for iCloud beta. Really! What could possibly be in a file format for a word processing/DTP application that requires a specific OS? Particularly when it hardly pushes the boundaries of WP & DTP. In fact does less than its 5 year old predecessor.
It still does not do most of the basic features users have been begging for ever since it was launched, only now the little it does can't be shared with most Mac users. Not just everyone else. And it is absolutely totally unparsable should you need to rescue it.
Still, oddly enough, users persist with it.
Someone may enlighten me. I read a book a few years back called the The Corporation, The Company or something like that, which turned out to be a huge HR experiment to see just how far management could go tormenting its employees with random and nonsensical directives, endless changes and a deliberately misdirected reward system. From memory the employees ended up burning the building down.
Looks like someone at Apple thought this was an experiment worth pursuing.
Peter
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Oct 20, 2014 2:53 AMby graymc89,Peter,
I just wanted to say thanks for your efforts concerning this matter. I lost my old ID, but I've periodically looked at this thread since the debacle last fall. The new Pages lasted about 18 hours on my machine last fall before I ripped it out in frustration. The only good news is that it finally cured me of being an early adopter.
Have you heard any report of Pages 4.3 performance under Yosemite? Can you mail merge again for example?
Cheers
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Dec 30, 2014 12:19 PMby GabiWinks,I am trying to print letter labels for my holidays cards using Avery Labels. I cannot find the proper Mac template through avery and either way I cannot export my Numbers Address list to the Pages document. I wanted to create my own template so that I could write out every individual address I have, but cannot being that I can't enable a vertical ruler (there is no "menu" or "Settings" that I can see.
As for compatibility, don't get me started! I cannot transfer anything to my pages because it is not Mac supported.
This experience has confirmed that I need to go back to Microsoft Office for Mac. I cannot believe this. My frustration is overwhelming.
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Dec 30, 2014 12:39 PMby Peggy,By reading the many posts in this thread & others you will have discovered that Pages 5 does not do mail merge, period. Earlier versions of Pages can do mail merge but labels is something that Pages was never designed to do. You can use an Avery label template in Pages 4 or earlier, either a native Pages version or a Word version, but the easiest way to make labels using an Avery template is to use Contacts (in your Applications folder). In the print dialog you can select the desired template.
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Dec 30, 2014 12:59 PMby PeterBreis0807,The problem with doing labels in Pages, even when it was possible in Pages '09 was that it only merged one address per page. You may have had 24 labels on the sheet, but they would all be the same. There are work arounds for Pages '09 and Pages 5.5.1 has an AppleScript that patches this but it is a bit of work.
Simplest solution as Peggy points out is to use the tool provided, Contacts or Address Book.
Create a Group of your holiday addresses, or select them, then Print and select the Avery labels you want in the Layout option..
Peter
PS You have left it late.
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Dec 30, 2014 1:01 PMby GabiWinks,I gave up and downloaded Microsoft office... now i just have to figure out where they sent my product key code (which they didn't include in the email they sent) and am on the phone waiting to talk to someone. I should just grab a **** pen and start writing addresses out because technology is failing me
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Jan 6, 2015 1:32 PMby imHybrid,I've been a PC and Microsoft Office user for 17 yrs and 3 yrs a "Hybrid". I was starting to like some of Apples stuff (iPad, iPod, iPhone, AppleTV) and software, too. Now I must buy Word for PC-MAC since I can't even do BASIC things like select non-contiguous text. I have 150 places I have to change Styles. These are BASIC features. Garbage is FREE, too! Will you ever add back the features?
