If you have used a past version of Microsoft Word before, then you will feel right at home with Word look. The familiar toolbox is at the top with relevant sections. In comparison, Apple Pages look better. The editing options are at the right side and the ability to add table, charts, media, are at the top. Apple Pages perfectly gets the basics.
You can add images, videos, tables, integrate stats, shapes, and more. One can set a password to access a page for extra security. The default editing options remain straightforward. I recommend you master keyboard shortcuts for Word to fly through functionalities. Microsoft Word is full of features yet the media add-on remains same as Apple Pages.
The assistant will guide you to make compelling resume edits. There is also a researcher function which gets all the relevant information of the selected word from the web. Thesaurus features let you find the synonyms of a word to increase vocabulary. You can also add a password to document, add equations, format pages with color, border, and add watermarks.
You can save a document offline on Microsoft Word and Apple Pages. Apple Pages is tightly integrated with iCloud. Once you hit the save button, the software will save it in the default iCloud folder. You can generate a sharable link and send a link to others.
With iOS 13 and the upcoming Mac Catalina update, user can send the entire folders to others. Microsoft Word is all about options. You can save documents to Dropbox and Box too. The trick remains the same. Save a document to cloud, open it on other device, and start making edits again. Sharing and real-time collaboration are essential in On top of that, do you need all the Office products?
I would only use Word and perhaps Excel from time to time and never use the other apps in the suite. If you are a Mac user like me and your primary requirement is for word processing programs, can Pages reliably replace Microsoft Word?
If all you need is an Apple word processor, Mac Pages can handle everything you will probably ever need to do.
The word processing in the page layout document view is easy to work with. All the text formatting, fonts, outline styles, and writing tools are easy to find and use. There is a spell checker, word count, auto table of contents, and track change with an add comments option. It is difficult to think of a standard function in Word that is not available in Pages documents. There are some areas of compatibility. They are mostly very advanced features of Word compared to Pages and Excel compared to Numbers.
Most issues are related to the compatibility of macros. You will only need to consider it if you are an advanced user. Apple has a list of compatibility issues between Office and iWork apps. You might consider this if you are using complex charts, tables, and macros. But there are no aspects that would concern an author, content writer, or blogger.
You can write, format, make columns, import, export, and print in precisely the same way as you do with Word. Pages is a great word processor. It has had a lot of stability improvements over the years to make it extremely reliable and robust.
It only takes half an hour or so to become familiar with the menus, options, and text styles. You will find that Pages is very easy to use.
The sidebar menu is intuitive and changes depending on what you are doing or where you place your cursor. One big plus with Pages is that you never need to bother saving because it automatically saves as you work. This is a huge bonus and a time saver. You never have to worry about losing one single word of your work. Every day tasks like inserting headers and footers, text boxes, or adding page numbers are all simple. Working with images is one area where Pages really shines.
There is so much more control over images compared to Word. For authors working with paperback covers, it is easy to drop in a high-resolution cover image, make your adjustments, and then export directly to pdf. You would probably rarely need to do this. But if you do, there is this workaround on Apple Discussions. It works by simply overlaying a text box and then making it invisible.
One other big plus for Pages vs Word is that authors can export directly to epub without the hassle of converting the file in another program. If you are publishing ebooks, this is a massive time saver when you want to format an ebook.
There are not a lot of options compared to what you get with Calibre. But it is more than enough to export a perfectly acceptable epub file directly from Pages ready for publishing with Amazon KDP , Smashwords, or Draft2Digital. In the past, you needed to use iAuthor software to publish with Apple. But now, you can publish to Apple straight from your Pages manuscript of your ebook. Take a look at how easy it is to publish from Pages to Apple Books.
There is no doubt that you will have times when you need to collaborate on documents and work with Word users. But it is quick and easy to convert Pages to Word or Word to Pages. On the Layout tab, click Orientation , and then click Portrait or Landscape. Tip: To change the orientation for all pages after the cursor, instead of selecting text, click where you want to start the new page orientation.
Next to Apply to , click This point forward. Next to Orientation , click the orientation you want, and then click OK. Next to Apply to , click Selected text , and then click OK. Important: To change the orientation for a specific section, your document must be divided by section breaks. Learn how to add section breaks. Next to Apply to , click This section , and then click OK. Insert, delete, or change a section break.
Print a document. Change paper size. Move, rotate, or group a picture, text box, or other object. Important: Office for Mac is no longer supported.
Upgrade to Microsoft to work anywhere from any device and continue to receive support. Upgrade now. Select the options that you want, such as the number of pages or which pages you want to print, and then click Print.
Tip: If you don't see other print options in the Print dialog box, click the blue downward facing arrow to the right of the Printer pop-up menu. Click Page Range , and then in the Page Range box, do one of the following:. Type the page numbers with commas between numbers or with a hyphen between the starting and ending numbers in the range.
Type an s followed by the section number, type a comma, and then type an s followed by the next section number.
Type the range in the following format: p n s n -p n s n , where p is in front of the page number and s is in front of the section number. For example, to print from page 2 in section 3 through page 3 in section 5, type p2s3-p3s5. You can usually learn whether your printer supports duplex printing either by looking at the information that was included with the printer or by looking at the printer's properties. Some printers offer the option of automatically printing on both sides of a sheet of paper automatic duplex printing.
Other printers provide instructions so that you can manually reinsert pages to print the second side manual duplex printing. Some printers do not offer duplex printing at all. Then, on the Two-Sided pop-up menu, make sure that Off is not selected. After the odd pages are printed, flip the stack of pages over, reinsert the stack into the printer, repeat steps 1 through 3, and then click Even pages only. Under Printing options , select the Reverse print order check box.
Under Orientation , click the orientation that you want, and then click OK.
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