Updating to Pages 5.0

I'd call up the credit card company and dispute the charge...

I didn't even notice that link. I've reported a problem on both purchases. It will be interesting to see what the response is from the bean counters!

I can hardly do that when I was required sign in and then asked to authorize the purchase before it was charged and downloaded.

It isn't a matter of what the App Store is doing right now; it is what it did yesterday, which was to tell me I had to pay for the apps.

Mike,

I think you will get relief, but you will have to apply.

Jerry

Interesting and maybe some help on this matter.

So after I was able to update, for free, the other 2 apps (keynote and numbers) they are currently showing as "Resume donwload" on the app store.

It is not saying "installed"

The funny thing is . . . it is installed!

I think Apple still has a number of bugs with Mavricks update.

Seriously, dont bother. They have absolutely ruined Pages to the point it is practically unusable. Stick with '09, it's a much better application.

Here are just a few points I made in a forum post earlier:

So many basic features now missing or broken,

A big selling point in the keynote was the compatibility of files across devices, but at what cost? It seems that to achieve feature parity across mac/ios/icloud they’ve just hobbled the mac app rather than improving the others.

As for the new user interface. I really don't like the fact the inspector is now fixed on the right of the page. What about those people who prefer it on the left? or who wish to have the formatting options close to what they are editing? Now were forced to move the mouse right across the screen all the time. On a 27” display thats a massive pain in the arse

Key things I've spotted just in the last hour:

- You can't even set facing pages any more, nor view two-page spreads.
- No custom toolbar any more

- No styles list only a drop down, massively slowing down editing
- No function key assignments for styles
- Select all instances of a Style is gone
- no way to import styles from another document

- No drag/drop page orderings
- No duplicate/delete pages
- Adjustment guides/grid gone

- No shading in table cells
- no objects or images in table cells

And I should all all these features were in the previous version. They are all missing from the 'upgrade'

Honestly, it's like they gave a student a project to make a word processor and this is what they came up with!

Dont forget . . . all the templates have changed as well and the '09 had much better ones for designs

Installing the new Pages doesn't remove the old one so you can always just open Pages '09 if you prefer that.

In my case it help to change the Mac OS X language to English. Afterwards the updates appeared!

this actually helped me too!

OMG CHANGING THE LANGUAGE ACTUALLY WORKS!!! 😀

Don't know if this will help. After installing the updates for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, still had the old icons on my Mac dock. But the app store said the new versions (which were free) were installed. Ummm. Searched the internet for answers. NADA...then I happened to look in my Applications Folder. Yep...new versions were just sitting all nice and pretty in there.

debbi52 wrote:

Don't know if this will help. After installing the updates for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, still had the old icons on my Mac dock. But the app store said the new versions (which were free) were installed. Ummm. Searched the internet for answers. NADA...then I happened to look in my Applications Folder. Yep...new versions were just sitting all nice and pretty in there.

It's a good thing that the old versions of the apps were left behind, as the new versions are missing a lot of the features that were available in the previous versions. The new versions are OK for light use, but any advanced user will probably find them lacking. There are a bunch of threads on the Apple Forum highlighting the missing features...

Mine just updated and didn't leave older version behind...