Hello Tim, Yes, the old iWork was still there after the update to Mavericks, but my problem is that I have to teach iWork and anyone getting a new Mac will have the new versions of the applications. I’ve reported all the problems I’ve found so far using the facility from within Pages and directly to Accessibility.
I’ve been defending iWork as a viable alternative to MS Office ever since it became accessible with iWork09, but as it stands, I can no longer do that. iWork is no longer a serious office suite for anyone running a business. Even just a few days after the release of the new versions of the apps, there were hundreds of criticisms on the Apple discussion boards. I hope Apple takes note and does something about it quickly before they lose a lot of customers. Cheers, Anne On 29 Oct 2013, at 00:02, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> 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 <a...@anarchie.org.uk> 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 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/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 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/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 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/groups/opt_out.
