Which is better: Pages or Word for Mac?

Question

Hi everyone! I'm thinking about buying Pages but I never seen it in action. So to all of you who use Pages, please tell me how you like it.
Domonique

Answer 1

To be honest, I was suspicious too about the question if Pages could compete with my daily work load in Word. After using it now for everything, from invoicing to a complex Information Architecture concept, I have to admit that Pages has superseded Word. Here is why:
- It is much more intuitive and has a high grade of usability. The user experience is advanced over Word
- It finally offers intuitive handling of styles. This is the first time I can actually *define and apply styles without them getting into the way with every step I do, a big improvement over Word
- I don't have to dig through a thousand windows and tabs to make one typographic function work with another one
- In my testing, I achieved up to 75% quicker results in the same timeframe, mostly through improved usability. I could concentrate on thinking and didn't have to look for things buried in a preference pane
I am not John Grisham and I am not an accountant. I don't intend to use Pages to write a legal document with a thousand annotations.
For everything else, I fail to see what exactly it is that would make Word more advanced than Pages, other than us users being too comfortable to improve our work flow, stubbornly sticking with our worn out shoes.
After an initial setup time to get used working with it, I haven't found a single thing I couldn't do with Pages.