P.D. Workman
1 min readAug 1, 2022

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I've now been using Mac for 10 years (after 30 of PC use) and I really like it. I like how the systems are integrated and work together. That many of the functions you need to buy a separate program for on Windows computers is built into the Mac ecosystem. That I can share information back and forth between devices without difficulty.

I still run into the occasional bug, but it is far less buggy than Windows.

I would urge caution with using Pages, however. I would love to be able to drop Word, and for 95% of my work, I use other options. But there is some stuff I still need Word for. One thing that I discovered in sharing files with editors or contributors who use Pages to produce docx files is that they are rife witih random codes, mostly invisible, that can wreak havoc with your formatting or the editing process. Dozens of language codes throughout a document that is all written in US English disrupt the spellchecking and grammar checking. Various styling and formatting codes that have forced me to copy the text from a Pages document into a plain text file to strip out all of the codes, and then copy it back into a new docx file to add back in italics, bold, and styles. And in experimenting with using Pages, it only took me a day to end up with a corrupted file.

Others may have a different experience, but I find I cannot recommend Pages.

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P.D. Workman
P.D. Workman

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