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Article: Apple's Pages worth a turn.(BUSINESS)(ON COMPUTERS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Byline: Mark Kellner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Pages - one-half of Apple's new IWork suite - is not your father's word-processing program. It's not even your older sister's. Instead, it is a different sort of animal that at once delights and frustrates those accustomed to more powerful technologies.
The delight comes from overall ease of use and from extremely powerful page-layout and design features, which, as some other reviewers have noted, rival desktop publishing programs for their completeness. The frustration comes from a sort of either/or approach. You can have footnotes in a document, but not endnotes, for example.
Is it, then, worth the ...