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Ringing the changes in Pages’ editing history

by Tom Gorham on 4 October 2010 in iWork
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Pages’ track changes feature may not be quite as comprehensive as Word’s, but it’s still pretty impressive – and even applies to layout elements… As far as it’s possible to have any sort of relationship with a feature in a word processing program, it’s fair to say that Track Changes and I have had a [...]

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Numbers 09 rocks, categorically speaking

by Tom Gorham on 20 September 2010 in iWork
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The ability to organise data into different categories makes Numbers a powerful tool if you find yourself working with long lists of information. Sometimes it seems that Numbers can’t win. Back at the turn of the year I was asked by a friend to recommend a Mac-based accounting program. Based on his simple needs – [...]

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An outline of grievances with Pages’ planning tool

by Tom Gorham on 6 September 2010 in iWork
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Pages now has an outlining feature, which is fantastic news, but you shouldn’t ditch your old outlining tools just yet, as it has a couple of flaws… Much of the annoyance value of a saying such as ‘fail to plan, plan to fail’ probably comes from the fact that, as with all similarly irritating aphorisms, [...]

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Getting a better service from Pages

by Tom Gorham on 24 August 2010 in iWork
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Pages may not come with as many features as Word, but by using services that are already built-in to Mac OS X, you can improve its functionality. If I’d been given a pound for every time someone has told me: ‘Pages can’t do that’ or ‘Pages is missing feature x’, it’s fair to say that [...]

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AppleScript saves the day with automatic save for Pages

by Tom Gorham on 9 August 2010 in iWork
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As with all the iWork applications, Pages doesn’t save files automatically, so it’s AppleScript to the rescue again to protect you from lost work… It’s one of the near-irrefutable properties of Sod’s law that when disasters happen, they happen at the worst possible time. So it was that there was a level of inevitability surrounding [...]

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Keynote versus Photoshop? Not as crazy as its sounds

by Tom Gorham on 26 July 2010 in iWork
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It may be billed as a presentation tool, but Keynote can actually turn its hand to a variety of tasks, such as web page mockups and illustrations. Eton headmaster William Horman certainly wasn’t thinking of presentation programs when he wrote, almost 500 years ago, that necessity was the mother of invention. However, it’s a sentiment [...]

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