This sounds exactly like what happened with Final Cut Pro. they dumbed it down to a more consumer grade product, angered a bunch of power users, Apple AFAIK put back some of the features. I wonder if iWork has to go through the same cycle? You'd think Apple would have learned from previous mistakes. If Apple wants to compete in the productivity field, they are going to have to include more features in iWork and not less. Otherwise, All office productivity users will keep using MS Office despite their recent changes.
Still too bad we can't use Libreoffice on Macs anymore. That product works really on Linux with GNOME; I thought I had read somewhere that some accessibility improvements might be coming to Libreoffice for the Mac but haven't heard anything in a while. On Oct 28, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Anne, > > I was reading up on some Pages issues and you’re not alone in your > frustration with Mail Merge fields and such. I noticed that when upgrading > from iWork 09 to the new Pages and such that my old version of iWork 09 > remained on my Mac in my Applications folder. Yours should have done the > same since you were running from a older CD install of iWork. If you didn’t > already get rid of it, you are able to run the Pages 4.3 in Mavericks as well > and the Mail Merge functionality is still there. If not, you should still be > able to re-install it from your original CD then have both usable copies of > Pages. Not the best way of running things but may help with some of the lost > features that you were accustomed to. Beyond that, it appears that quite a > number of people have been letting Apple know their disappointment with these > feature losses and maybe they will re-instate them in a future update. > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Oct 28, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I’m going through my teaching materials for Pages and finding problems. The >> latest one is that we can no longer modify the date style in a document >> using a contextual menu. Pages takes the date style from System >> preferences/Language&Region/Advanced where it uses the Full version of the >> date. We can copy whatever style of date we like into that field, but this >> is really irritating as, speaking for myself, I don’t always want to use the >> same format. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
