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Mac OS X (the operating system on a Mac) comes with some Apple applications, such as Safari to browse the Web, Mail to, well, receive and send email, iCal as calendar, etc...

Ease of use is a big plus with Pages, and for short documents that are designed to be printed or emailed quickly, this application is a good choice. You can do similar small tasks with Word, but Pages has the big advantage that it is well-integrated with Mac OS X. Consider the following as an example only. TextEdit is a word processor/text editor in Mac OS X Leopard that you can use to create documents, write letters, scribble notes, or open Read Me files. Although TextEdit isn’t as sophisticated as Microsoft Word (or even AppleWorks or Pages), you can definitely use the OS X. Multiple Master (Mac OS X 10.2 and later only) - A Type 1 PostScript variant. Rarely used in production. Rarely used in production. While older versions of Preview and the Acrobat Reader do depend on certain Multiple Master fonts for their operation, they are no longer produced by Adobe and have been declared obsolete.


One of those appllications is called TextEdit, and you'll find it in your Applications folder (which should be sitting in the rightmost part of the Dock, at the bottom of your screen). It's a very basic text processor/editor, but it may fit your needs.

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You can also try a variant based on it, called Bean, which offers a whole slew of features TextEdit doesn't have. If you want something more refined and are willing to pay the price, you can opt for Microsoft Office for Mac, or a freeware such as OpenOffice, LibreOffice or NeoOffice (all three are cousins).


You can also try the latest version of Apple's iWork suite, which you might just adopt after a while. It's quite good.


You'll find all those apps and software via your favorite search engine...

Nov 16, 2013 2:59 AM

Over the next few months I shall be releasing a 3 part podcast series on the iWork Suit Application. This is part 1 which takes you through an introduction to Pages in Mac OS X.

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Hello and welcome to this Amsys Training video Podcast.

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My name’s John and today I’m going to take you through a introduction to Pages in Mac OS X. This will be the first in a 3 part series detailing the iWork suite of Applications including Keynote and Numbers.

So what is Pages?

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Pages is an easy to use word processing and page layout tool designed by Apple.

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Prior to the Mac App Store, Pages used to come as part of the iWork package but can now be downloaded as a standalone App at just £13.99.

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The other great benefit to it is it’s compatibility with other popular document types, such as Microsoft Word documents.

Let’s take a look at some of the key features of Pages…

The Template Chooser

When you launch Pages, the first thing that appears is the Template Chooser. There are over 180 Apple Designed Templates with the ability to also create and save your own personal templates for future use.

The templates allow you to quickly start creating new documents such as Forms and Reports or even Newsletters, Flyers and Posters by simply replacing the placeholder photo’s and text.

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Word Processing

In terms of Word Processing, Pages is incredibly simple to get up and running with. Just start typing and you can quickly build and customise your document. To add items such as pictures or Photo’s – simply drag them in where they can be easily resized and placed. At the top of your Window you have the Format bar. From here we can quickly change our Font and font size, as well as choosing between Bold, Underlined and italic text. Just above we have icons to create Tables and Charts.

On the left hand side we have the styles draw, where we can quickly apply preselected Paragraph styles to our document and also redefine styles based upon our personal preferences

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On the right hand side we have the Inspector pane, whereby we can further customise our document as well as find additional options for managing charts, graphics and tables to name but a few.

AutoSave and Versions

One of the great features of Mac OS Lion is Autosave and Versions and both of these features have been implemented in Pages. As your document builds over time, you will see how Lion will automatically save changes made so that in the rare event of a system failure or crash, you will not lose any data. Versions takes this a step further and allows you to see the history of your document, side by side with your current version, and allow you to restore a previous file or copy data from one version to another.

Compatibility

As mentioned before, Pages is compatible Microsoft Word and allows you to save a document as a Word compatible file for sharing between multiple platforms.

I hope you have found this Podcast informative and that it has given you a brief glimpse of the built in functionality of Pages. Look out for our upcoming Podcasts on Keynote and Numbers. We also run a 2 day, iWork 09 course so if you are looking for further training please feel free to get in touch to discuss further, email training@amsys.co.uk or phone 0208 660 9999.

On behalf of Amsys Training, thank you for watching.