How is Pages for you?

Hey everyone, I just bought Iwork for my Mac and I basically got it for the work processing (Pages). Like many people, I work in a MS Word world and I was wondering if Pages is an effective substitute?

Hi Handleygen
Welcome to the forum.
The single greatest attraction of Pages would have to be the excellent templates supplied.
As a workable substitute for MsWord that varies:
1. It is not MsWord
2. It's conversion back and forth from MsWord documents is imperfect
3. You have to Save As or Export to get to .doc format, this is both annoying and causes problems and duplication of files.
4. There are features in Pages that are not in MsWord and vice versa, you will only find out what they are by trial and error.
If you must constantly exchange work with PC MsWord users you would be advised to get *Mac MsWord* or the free OpenOffice. If your needs are simple you could also try Bean (free) which also saves to .doc natively, even TextEdit will do that, but Bean is the better solution.
Your choices are much wider than this:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=7&sid=b567ba1d3f4084 0933305188d93379e2&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Try what seems the best fit for you no-one can really decide that for you.
Peter

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