Hello Steve, Yes, I’d have thought Apple would have learned from their mistakes with Final Cut Pro, too. They’ve landed me with a nice mess to sort out, bringing my teaching materials up to date. I’m starting to feel like throwing in the towel. iWork is no longer a competitor for MS Office.
Cheers, Anne On 29 Oct 2013, at 05:02, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <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. -- 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.
