Pages version of Word's notebook setting?

It is to the best of my knowledge that Microsoft Word for Macs has a setting where you can format your page as notebook paper and it comes with already set tabs and such. I was wondering if this is available on Pages. If so, where can I find it?

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Although I imagine you could readily make up a template to imitate the setting.
Sure but to do that, the OP will have to study the PDF User Guide
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 11 novembre 2008 22:15:58)

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I am new to mac and am trying to understand how to do something i did in Word. In Word you can set up document so that you have 2 pages per 8.5 x 11 landscape page. Each page is treated as a separate page. Can this be done in word for mac 2008?

I am new to mac and am trying to understand how to do something i did in Word. In Word you can set up document so that you have 2 pages per 8.5 x 11 landscape page. Each page is treated as a separate page. Can this be done in word for mac 2008?

Suggest you ask on the Microsoft Mac forums since it's their software you have a question about:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac

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The Finder's Get Info window reports the Word document to be a "Microsoft Word 97 - 2004 document".
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I've seen many threads on this subject and wanted to add my own observations, which may help someone trying to make a decision on which suite they may need. Personally I use both since they have different strengths and weaknesses. I haven't worked much with Keynote or PowerPoint so I'll skip them.
I work in a WinXP eviroment so Office is what I use 8-5, mostly Excel and Access. At home, I'm a freelance photographer and custom print designer. I've done sales flyers, restaurant menus, advertising, and custom graphics. I've done a lot of custom marketing materials for my work and always fire up my Macbook, showing off what a Mac can do better than any Windows software we have.
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Amazon has Office Home & Student for $99 single license, or $117 for the 3 user family pack. iWork for $79, $99 family pack. There are free alternatives to both such as OpenOffice but I'm not getting into that debate. I've used OO but I don't like it's interface and the way it works. It's just not Pages or Numbers.
So, for my personal workflow, I prefer iWork for in-house documents, letters, simple spreadsheets, and anything that doesn't need editing outside. For simple documents, I'll just export to .DOC format and check it in Word before emailing or uploading. I share PDF's for printed output that needs approval and I use Office for collaboration files. I actually use Software McKiev's PrintShop 2 ($69.95) for more complex layouts like flyers, business cards, labels, greeting cards, custom envelopes, and advertising graphics. I try to use the best tool for the job since I've really never found a Swiss Army knife suite that does everything well.
If you're a student or writer and need tools for footnotes, TOC's, bibliographies, heavy calculating and graphing, then you'll get better mileage out of Office than iWork. If you're working more with the presentation of information in a printed format, then iWork will probably be easier to get the output you're looking for. Businesses can easily use both as I do.
Both suites have thier fans and haters... all I'm saying is they both will do the job, just some jobs are easier using one or the other.

Well first Congrats on your new Mac!
Honestly its going to be a personal choice... I use iWork at home and for personal use, but I have to use Office for Mac at work. I personally believe iWork is easier to use and seems to be more reliable.
Next thing: Mail or Outlook?
Well I love Mail I would say Mail all the way. Super sleek look and really easy to use.
Now you are asking for an individual breakdown... so here it is:
Excel vs. Numbers: Excel
Pages vs. Word: Pages
Keynote vs. Powerpoint: Keynote
So I would suggest using iWork and Mail.
Wish you Best of luck!
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Anything that is saved to iCloud and opened in a newer version of Pages is also converted to Pages 5 files.
All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.
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I'm using RoboHelp HTML 9 and Word 2010.
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--{code}
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--{code}
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 20 juin 2011 18:03:28
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Is it possible to combine the two modes and therefore having only one file to deal with.
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PeterBreis0807 wrote:
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It is stored only once exactly as a background image.
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REPORT print_via_ole_example .
INCLUDE ole2incl .
DATA: gs_word TYPE ole2_object ,
gs_documents TYPE ole2_object ,
gs_newdoc TYPE ole2_object ,
gs_actdoc TYPE ole2_object ,
gs_application type ole2_object,
gs_document type ole2_object ,
gs_docproperty type ole2_object,
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new-line.
END-OF-SELECTION.
FREE: gs_word, gs_actdoc, gs_documents, gs_newdoc .
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