Re: AUGD: How well does AppleWorks run on Apple's new Intel systems?
Re: AUGD: How well does AppleWorks run on Apple's new Intel systems?
- Subject: Re: AUGD: How well does AppleWorks run on Apple's new Intel systems?
- From: Nicholas Pyers <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:57:05 +1100
On 23/03/2006, at 2:23 AM, Dan Spiess wrote:
Then that is shame, as Pages isn't anywhere near as easy or
intuitive of a word processor as AppleWorks is.
That's pretty much the opinion of our local Mac user group (over 85
members).
While my personal opinion is I prefer Word (well actually the full
Office package) over AppleWorks. But I much prefer Pages and would
not give up Keynote to go back to Powerpoint.
Pages 2 is a huge improvement over v1 and both are far better for me
than complex programs like PageMaker, InDesign or Quark. But then I
do more page layout then strict word processing (and in fact
"used" (if you can call it that - perhaps "suffered" is a better
choice ;) Microsoft Word as a page layout program for over 10 years -
then I was forced to learn the basics of InDesign, but was never
comfortable with it. iWork '05 comes along with Pages 1.0 and while
not perfect (far from it in fact - lots of little minor but annoying
things) it was a vast improvement for me and the type of work I need
it for. And iWork '06 with Pages 2.0 fixes most of the problems and
adds great new features.
Also, part from using Keynote for it's primary purpose of producing
presentation slides, I also use it to do some basic graphic work - it
is far better than any
Look at some of the "splash images" developed for some of my
presentations;
<http://www.nicholaspyers.com/thirtyappleyears/>
<http://www.nicholaspyers.com/presentations/20060510-freesoftware/>
<http://www.nicholaspyers.com/presentations/20060509-stockmedia/>
<http://www.nicholaspyers.com/presentations/20060506-stayinginformed/>
That said, many members of my local MUGs also agree with your members
- they prefer AppleWorks. But it becoming long in the tooth.
And hopefully Apple will release new applications into the iWork
suite - a simple spreadsheet and a simple "drawing/paint" tool.
Pages and Keynote both have the basic functions in them (Calculated
tables, shapes, reflections etc) so it shouldn't be to hard to add
this module
Dan
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Nicholas Pyers, Macintosh User Group Resources
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web: http://www.nicholaspyers.com/usergroups
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