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PeterBreis0807 Author

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Pages 5 features checklist

As you go through the new Pages 5 can you please add an added, missing or altered features here please.

I will start with some culled from the general discussions and if you could correct any errors add them:

Added

1. Right to Left text ie Arabic, Farsi & Hebrew. Uncertain about Pashtu

2. Single model templates. You turn off document text to get rid of the default. Not sure if this then can be mixed and matched with Word Processing templates

3. Able to share outside iCloud

Missing

1. Selecting non-contiguous text gone

2. Outline view appears gone

3. Customizable Toolbar is gone

4. Many templates appear gone

5. Captured pages gone

6. Reorganize pages by dragging gone

7. Duplicate pages gone

8. Subscript/superscript buttons gone

9. Select all instances of a Style is gone

10. Retain zoom level of document gone

11. Facing pages gone

12. Endnotes gone

13. Media Inspector can't find iPhoto library on external drive

14. Update is missing for older installations, Apple is reportedly working on a solution via a redeemable code or update on the ir Support Download site

Altered

1. Language set under Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar now document wide

2. Subscript/superscript text is now a convoluted route Gear > Advanced options > Baseline > Subscript/Superscript

3. Header appears to be multi-column

4. New file format (but still .pages?) not backwardly compatible

5. Page numbering method changed

6. T.O.C. appears buggy

7. Template file storage location moved - to where?

8. Imported older .pages files are not translating properly

9. Text language is detected automatically now

Letting you know I can't test or verify any of these as I haven't got Mavericks yet.

Peter

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 7:57 PM

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PeterBreis0807 Author

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Dec 2, 2013 1:15 AM in response to israfelli

I just sat through the local Apple Store class on Pages.

Very interesting what they didn't tell everybody, and guess didn't want to.

But even the Mac version was being heavily sold to iPad users. The Mac was deemed pretty much just a curiosity. It was all about iPad.

Peter

Dec 5, 2013 7:13 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

So, did anybody get the lights on the way out?

PeterBreis0807 Author

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Dec 5, 2013 10:49 PM in response to cosmofromwatertown

Not quite there yet.

At the moment it is the standard change the subject mode with Apple.

Interesting to see who Apple is hitting on as "new blood". It is a heck of a lot of "old blood".

People who are computer averse and simply amazed that anything works.

Peter

Dec 9, 2013 1:53 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Attached here is a chart of Pages 5.0.1 rating information for those that like such data:

(note if you're getting these posts via email, you might not see it)

Dr Ken

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Dec 10, 2013 4:40 AM in response to py99ajh

Agreed, I really wish I had not upgrade. Pages v5 is a mess. Too many missing and broken features.

Dr Ken

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Dec 10, 2013 4:42 AM in response to israfelli

I hope we get a new version very soon. Apple should rebuild the last release of v4 and release it as v5.1. Done.

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Dec 10, 2013 5:55 AM in response to Dr Ken

Both extremely unlikely.

Peter

Dec 11, 2013 8:00 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Note that Pages 5.0.1 star-rating average now calculates to 1.97 stars, however, the rating in the MAS still shows 2 stars. Apparently Apple must be "rounding up"

PeterBreis0807 Author

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Dec 11, 2013 8:23 PM in response to israfelli

Apparently Apple is still not getting the message, but then it never does.

It is all us "Holding it wrong".

Peter

PS Australia is once again ahead of you. We are rating it 1.64 stars. All the new ratings are one star. The "Isn't it great, I've never used it" few are probably wishing they could retract their initial glowing commendation. I wonder if they are all piling into the Forum with their problems now?

Dec 18, 2013 7:55 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Apparently I cannot Command+Click to select multiple pieces of text either. Another missing feather.

Dec 18, 2013 8:02 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Another missing feature. You cannot see what page number of the document you're viewing without bulking up the visualization by turning on Outine Mode. I just want the status bar at the bottom of the window that says, Page 1/10.

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Dec 18, 2013 11:55 AM in response to common cole

Toolbar > View > Word Count

Peter

Dec 18, 2013 8:30 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Nope. That only has "words," "characters" and "paragraphs." Not "Pages."

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Dec 18, 2013 8:34 PM in response to common cole

Page of Page is something you can insert in the Footer or Header.

That could be temporary and you remove it when the job is done.

Peter

Dec 19, 2013 5:14 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Pages for the Mac is seriously degraded in its new iteration. One of the best features of Pages was the ability to word wrap images but the new product wipes half the images I put into it from iphoto and I cannot find a workaround and suspect this will drive me back to the juggernaut that is MS Word.

Pages 5 features checklist