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Stupidly bought iWork w/new iMac. It's awful. Where's cheapest place to buy Microsoft
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Ahh, I see. Thanks for clearing that up. I can't believe how different my resume reads in Word vs Pages. It was made on Word by the original writer. Pages had the font all wrong after I tried to save it in Pages (as a Word OR Pages doc), it didn't have any of the nice lines that were originally on it, and the over look on Word blew Pages away. Also, Pages had the page layout incorrect - what was supposd to be on page 1 was on page 2 so everything was basically "off".
Word is much better for people like me.
Some of the font problems arise because Microsoft uses many non-standard fonts. This has been their history because it has allowed them to dictate the market. (They've sometimes failed with this strategy, e.g. HD-DVD.) Pages does not fully implement some of the formatting that Word has and if a Word document has some of those they will cause problems when opened within Pages.
However, if one makes a Pages document de novo, it can be easier to do than in Word. One thing I hate about Word is that you cannot easily place images (as you have noted earlier in this thread). In Pages, it's pretty easy to put them where you want them once you unlock the image. I'm opposite of you - I used Word since 1993 until 2008. When iWork 09 was released I switched to it and use it exclusively (except when dealing with shared documents with some of my Windows friends).
However, if one makes a Pages document de novo, it can be easier to do than in Word. One thing I hate about Word is that you cannot easily place images (as you have noted earlier in this thread). In Pages, it's pretty easy to put them where you want them once you unlock the image. I'm opposite of you - I used Word since 1993 until 2008. When iWork 09 was released I switched to it and use it exclusively (except when dealing with shared documents with some of my Windows friends).
HD DVD was Microsoft?
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Toshiba, not Microsoft. There was an HD forum group which included 10 companies (none of which was Microsoft) to come up with a format. Then Toshiba headed the HD DVD Promotion group which included NEC, Sanyo and Memory Tech.
MS wanted HD-DVD to win the war with Blu-ray. They did everything they could to win, but alas their power has shrunk quite a bit in recent years. Good riddance.