We all know these Word users.īut any iWork app is special because it’s also a layout app. Or to use tab spaces instead of actual paragraphing. This leaves most users to manually format any text in their document instead of style their document. In Microsoft Word these concepts are flat out hidden or found in clumsy cluttered interfaces. The user interface also teaches key concepts like paragraphical formatting and styles, which are front and center.
The formatting sidebar arranges these complex options in a manner that is effortless to discover and use. Line spacing, before paragraph line spacing, after paragraph line spacing, drop caps, columns, indents, hyphenation, tabs, rules, justification. It turns something that’s a nightmare on Microsoft Word into a trivial task. Pages has some of the easiest to use yet completely comprehensive text formatting tools. And, in fact, better than the other two competitors. Forget any preconceptions about word processors you have.
