My learning curve this is flatter than I’d like it to be. I keep chatting most of the Apple people that Apple‘s finest hour is it graphic interactive audio but even a pure language page can utilize symbols and motion to provide guidance step from step a lot of Apple stuff is all written like the arcade Gutenberg Bible Long lines of thousands of pages of pros packed with Apple by remember the medium is the message so there’s a lot that doesn’t make sense to me about pages and other wordprocessors. There’s so much reading in order to do writing that’s not necessary. What’s necessary as a word processor that has motion and sound and Reactions now then that’s an Apple product that is worth putting out so fine-tune pages the style of just listening, lots of parts and assuming that people know to start with what they want, but it’s hidden what’s given as a bunch of parts and that’s not the way humans think we start with what we want our end goal we start at the end that we’d like to see, and then we learned backward to where we are each step connecting to what we wantin fact logistically the instructional style in Apple is the opposite of that so it comes down to a choice do you really mean to serve your customers then you’ve got to establish rapport with them which is the match they’re thinking Matt Manor that’s what I have to say. How do I send

So why do I use Pages? Because I don’t want to pay for a M$ license. Or at least more than the one I have on my Air. Pages makes a great way to capture MS Word comparable docs on my iPad and iPhone and then through iCloud to my Mac. It’s all interoperable pretty nicely. Is it perfect? Unfortunately no and that is why 4 vs 5 stars. If you have complex Word formatting you can go from word to pages pretty reliably. But it does not work well the other way around. You will get it into Word but the formatting will not be as word expects it. Note this is for the advanced formatting like headers and the like. Also equations are not interoperable. Your can get graphics of them back and for the but can’t edit. I also find pages advanced formatting controls like for hierarchical lists to be horribly clumsy and irrational and not intuitive. Word’s are not great either but it might have a leg up here. I also hate that pages does not have a built in equation editor. You have to type LaTex and who does that any more. There are some nice third party equation creator and editing apps but you still have to copy paste them to and from Pages, why none INSIDE Pages? The bottom line is that pages is not as intuitive and easy as it should be for an Apple product, but it is in every Apple device so it’s always there without having to install anything and once it’s idiosyncrasies are learned it does “just work”, just not as easily or with as many features as it should.

I usually don’t write reviews, but I do think that this app deserves a writer’s review. As a straight ipad and iphone user and blogger/author, I use this app every day, all day at work. I love the flexibility of the features. Being able to save articles to iCloud or import them to other apps is very useful. Also because I am the only only worker who uses Apple products in an office of Windows computers, being able to export the files I am working on into word docs is very helpful. I am very happy with the newest feature of being able to add a table of contents to my work since I am a book author too and have been unable to add this important feature to my work until the latest update to pages for iOS. I would highly recommend this app for anyone writing reports, books, blogs or anything else that requires basic word processing. Importing pictures into documents is very easy if the pictures are on your drive. One annoying issue I have is that Pages puts text into text boxes which keeps the table of contents generated from recognizing the headings. You have to cut out the text from the text box and then repast it into the document body in order for it to register in the table of contents generated in the front of the document. If this feature could be corrected so that text is not automatically put into text boxes I would be very happy and the workflow issue would be greatly improved. But I am still giving this app a 5 star rating because of the easy nature of the layout. I have used Microsoft Word for years before switching to an ipad and I am so much happier with Pages than I ever was with Word.

Pages is an EXCELLENT resource for all my documents and artwork layout with 2 GLARING flaws which I had thought Apple would have corrected AGES ago:First there is no option for typing in a circle/arch/or other text, word and letter shaping. This has been the only reason I continue to pay for and use MS Word and other applications for all these years.Secondly, the commands for manipulating and using tables is not consistent with the Numbers. In particular up,down,left,right navigation within the table as well as line breaks within cells as my 2 biggest pet peeves because they slow work flow so much when switching between applications. Other differences are also annoying but these are the two which trip my fingers up the most. The same is true for switching between the iPad version and laptop. I wish, at least among Apple devices and other Apple software, the commands were consistent.Other than these two - I ABSOLUTELY LOVE all the iWorks applications and have used them for everything from logo devices to book production to mural designs to meme creation to data driven research papers to YOU NAME IT! There is very little that can’t be done and hopefully developers will address these in the next update… right?!?!