Best way to include appendices to pages document

Rick,

You should certainly download and try out the iWork suite before making a decision. Pages has some interesting features that Word does not, and Word has many features that Pages does not. You need to find out if you can live without the Word features that aren't implemented in Pages. I can, but each case is different. Yes, Pages can have many sections in a single document, and multiple layouts within each section. There is some charm, though, in having each chapter in a separate file right up until you do the final assembly, if you must assemble to a single file. You will find the app's responsiveness is better with smaller file size and you have the peace of mind of knowing that if something terrible happens to your file and its backup versions, you only are losing a single chapter.

Regards,

Jerry

Rick Smith wrote:
What do you feel are some of the features missing from pages that office has?

Rick,

I can't give you a list. If you watch this discussion area you will find almost daily questions from switchers who can't find their favorite toolbar icon, don't find the options for certain features to be as rich or varied or exactly the same as what they are used to with Word. Some people complain about where the document is placed within the app window (left vs. centered), etc. Only you know what you find to be important and you will only find how you feel about the differences after some experience.

Also how do you create the sections that you speak of?

The Insert menu allows you to add Page Breaks, Section Breaks, Layout Breaks and Column Breaks.

It's very important to read the Pages User Guide to ease the transition. You can download the PDF from the Pages Help menu. If you don't see a feature listed in the User Guide, it probably doesn't exist. If you see a feature but aren't sure how to control it, you will get help here with which methods are best.

Good luck,

Jerry

Rick

I am not a real user of Word but I can give you some of the obvious things that Word has that Pages does not.

1. More layouts: Draft/Web/Outline/Print/Notebook/Publishing

2. A real desktop in Publishing that you can move objects to and off that surrounds the page

3. Themes which set basic fonts and color schemes

4. Non-printing characters

5. Much bigger collection of Objects/Shapes

6. Sophisticated diagramming tools (SmartArt)

7. ClipArt

8. Symbols palette

9. Libraries

10. Citations

11. Scrapbook for clippings

12. Bilingual dictionaries with translation service

13. Projects, a way of co-ordinating your files across MsOffice software including Entourage to merge/create bulk email

14. Templates for tables

15. WordArt a way of altering text decoratively

16. Autofit

17. Macros

18. Labels/Envelopes/Letter Wizzard/Pre-Printed

19. Format Painter to copy apply formatting

20. Inbuilt Sorting

21. A Work Menu

22. Multiple (customizable) Toolbars

23. Much bigger and extendable Autotext feature

24. Much bigger selection of Auto-shapes

25. Line Numbering

26. Much bigger and more flexible T.O.C.

27. Much wider choice of Hyperlinking both within and between documents, email and web pages

28. Much bigger selection of languages

29. More flexible document protection

30. Customizable keyboard

31. Document tiling

32. Audio notes

33. Proofing tools

34. Much bigger preference choices

35. 3D objects

36. Multiple Master pages

37. Varied page orientation and sizes within the same document

38. Ability to swap images

39. Hyphenation control

40. Open XML

41. Automator support

42. Wider range of document formats

43. Greater compatibility with PC formats

44. Direct link to user community

45. Autosave/Recovery

This was what a quick browse revealed. I suggest you try both sets of applications and explore, as I have done, for things that you find interesting.

Peter

Because that wasn't the question fruhulda.

I agree with you, I want a Goldilocks solution, which would be why I'd recommend iText Pro.

Although having now explored Word Mac 2008 my interest has been piqued for Word 2010 when it comes out. It doesn't look all that onerous.

But then we should compare that with the next Pages, whenever that comes out. Hope it's before my kids hit retirement age.

Peter

fruhulda you might be able to suggest some?

That's harder, because I know Pages I just hunt in Word for anything different.

Since I don't know Word, I can't say what it +doesn't have+ as I may just not know where to look.

I will say the obvious:

1. Pages templates are waaaaaay better than the dull or even ugly Word versions

2. Pages has a much better spreadsheet integration

3. Alpha masks, I think. Maybe Word has them somewhere

4. Pages has (flawed) R to L support, Word Mac 08 has none.

5. Pages has the Media Center

6. Pages has better integration with OSX, Word Mac 08 seems to have basically none

Peter

PS Mac Office 2011 preview:

http://www.macworld.com/article/152991/2010/07/office2011.html

Thanks, Peter. I really can't compare. I just have the Word X and I think word has become even more bloated since then. For Pages I like the like a lot of things but can't say if they are in Word to or not. One thing though:

Pages can read Word but not vice versa!

If you like to have everything in one application Word is in that category. I prefer to use several smaller apps to get the job done.

Peter Why don't you list what Pages have that Word doesn't?

I didn't ask why you didn't tell about feature in Pages. I asked you to tell us about which features there are in Pages that not are in Word as you seem to have some insight in the matter.

Make that:

7. Pages can read Word files

P. 🙂