I've been holding off replying to this question as I can't compare Pages to MS Word and JAWS. However, since the return of shortcuts for styles, Pages is almost as good as it used to be and in some ways it's better.
You can create a template with all the styles you need along with their shortcuts and you can now use footnotes and endnotes, and track changes. Tables are also much easier to handle now but merge fields are still missing so you can't use the Insert menu to pull in your own information from your contacts. There are ready-made templates for several kinds of reports including research paper, and we've created an APA format template. Pages has different ways of doing things from MS Word so you need to take some time to learn it. There are, however, several people on this list who use Pages regularly so help is always at hand. Cheers, Anne On 21 Mar 2014, at 18:50, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > it'll probably do fine for your limited needs. as far as format checking, you > can set VO to announce format changes and use that to format check the > document. I just bought pages after being a die hard MS word/JAWS user. I > still am, but I'm looking into Pages and it looks like it'll do a fair job > for word processing. > > On Mar 21, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Someone on Twitter was asking me about getting a Mac for college. One >> concern was word-processing, and whether Pages and Voiceover is good enough >> for papers, resumes, that sort of thing. I don't use Pages much, so I can't >> answer accurately, but I know people on here do. So, how is Pages (the >> Mavericks version) compared with, say, Jaws or NVDA with MS Office? What can >> you *not* do? What is easier? >> >> I've used Pages some, and I love that the header, body, and footer are all >> separate areas visible at once. However, I've not gone beyond a basic, blank >> template, except to look at a flyer layout and get very confused. I have no >> need for page headers, numbering, inserting tables or images, and other >> advanced features. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks! >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
