Pages vs Google Docs

That is hardly exhausting your choices.

There are many other Office Suites or Word Processing Apps.

I played briefly with Google Docs but found it rather weak and I hate using it in a browser which you have to specifically set-up to let you use it off-line.

Pages '09 is a terrific amazingly productive combination of Word Processing, DTP, Drawing, Charting and Spreadsheet. Unfortunately Apple has superseded it with Pages 5 and now 6, chopping off a long list of features and forever churning the file formats, creating totally unnecessary incompatiblities on the Mac, let alone with Windows.

LibreOffice [free] is a good but not perfect alternative.

It all comes down to what you want to use it for. Since Pages, LibreOffice and Google Docs are all free it is up to you to try them and see if they suit you.

We are not you.

Peter

Couple of points.

No version of Pages is a Word clone, and there are unique Word and Pages features that are indigestible by both.

Native Pages documents are incompatible with Google Drive and Google Docs.

Thanks you very much.