Pages. Is there a better document management App?

I have had Pages for a few months. I downloaded it, knowing it had some editing drawbacks. But one major irritant is that documents copied to Pages drops text - even whole sections of a WORD document. Of course, it messes up text in tables but I didn't expect it to drop so much. Frankly, I am now reluctant to bother with it.
There are a number of other apps which refer to documents. But I wonder if there is a recommended one? I don't want to pay, say, $20.00 and find it to be little better than Pages.
Thank you.
Ron

I've never used pages, but I do use Documents to Go and I've been happy with it. I don't think they have a free version you can play with, however other apps do if you want to try the free version (Lite) to see if they are worth paying for.

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D.M. wrote:
In Activity Monitor there is a Print Manager App taking over 99% of CPU resources and as a result, fans are on at full speed constantly, even if NOTHING is open. The user of this App is "_lp".
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