Re:Office Drama on macOS
by faitswulff on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:57AM
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My only problem with Pages is that I can’t figure out how to replace the text in templates without obliterating it completely. Otherwise it’s a good Word replacement.
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Re:Office Drama on macOS
by crottypeter on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:04AM
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Pages is not a suitable Word replacement at all!
Send a Word attachment to _anyone_ to collaborate. They can open, read and edit the file (cross platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS)
Send a pages attachment. Receiving party won't know what it is and won't be able to open or read it let alone edit it.
If only there was an 'Export as Word' function. There is! and it works fine for documents that aren't too fancy schmancy in terms of formatting.
Re:Office Drama on macOS
by thewebcount on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:39AM
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> Send a Word attachment to _anyone_ to collaborate. They can open, read and edit the file
If they hate themselves. Because no other app renders Word documents quite correctly, you end up with pagination problems, missing fonts, etc. PDF would be a better choice, or Rich Text if they have to edit it. I pretty much refuse Word documents because of how awful they are to work with if you're not running Word on Windows.
Pages is available on iCloud.com. The web version seems pretty close to parity with the native applications.