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• MS WORD VS APPLE PAGES HOW TO

If you have to collaborate with MS-Word users, Pages may be a good solution because it supports not only the MS file format but also the important collaboration feature of change tracking. This is not an in-depth review, more an aside to my remarks on Keynote and on LaTeX. Shouldn't this read "what are pages?" No, I'm referring to a word processor and layout program named Pages which is sold by Apple as part of the iWork bundle. This is discussed from a Mac-OS X specific point of view, and therefore programs like Pages and TextEdit play a role.

MS WORD VS APPLE PAGES HOW TO

As a by-product, I also raise the question of how to convert from HTML to something else. On this page, the original motivation is the somewhat more general task of converting from Word to something else, just as long as it's not Word. If you want to find out more about that, there's a separate page dedicated to converting from MS Word to LaTeX format.

Of course, one should also ask: If we want to get rid of MS Word, what do we replace it with? There is no simple answer, but in an science-and-engineering environment one possible answer would be: any of a variety of editors that support LaTeX. textutil included with Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger).The following alternatives to Word on Mac OS X are discussed on this page: If you're interested specifically in how to convert from Word to LaTeX, have a look at the Word → LaTeX page. doc files useful if they come your way relatively infrequently. But occasionally people send me documents in Microsoft Word format, and by now I have only one computer left in my group that actually has Word (or any Office program) installed.

I don't really have many uses for a conventional word processor because I create documents mainly using Xemacs, LaTeX and Mathematica (these links have some background information on the creators of TeX and Mathematica), and LyX. Replacing Microsoft Word Why you should not read this