I love using this app! I’ve used it to construct my other 3 poem books, and I must say navigating between options to figure out how to do what was a task but when I figured it out it was dope. I’ve created 3 masterpieces that I won’t be putting out until next year due to Pages. It’s the only app I feel I can use to freely construct my books the way that I wish. I just have one small problem.
I think you all could have a built-in book cover maker or even something we could draw or sketch a cover. I believe that y’all do and I just haven’t used it yet. I do have some ideas for a new book, and I plan on putting it together. I might try it out first but that is one thing it could use. The second is better don’t styles especially for book titles. A bit more diversity would be nice, and add a bit more of an eclectic feel to it. Other than that, I love this app! Thank you all so much for such a wonderful creation. I appreciate what all you’ve done with it thus far. It has been extremely motivating! ♥️✨
I draw pictures of cartoon characters on pages, using it in Split View with Firefox to look up characters to draw, and it’s mostly perfect. The only hiccup I tend to have involves the eye dropper. Sometimes when I open the eye dropper, my screen freezes and is completely unresponsive to taps, even when I close the app with the home button, or lock my iPad. I have to completely restart my iPad (Apple logo screen) to fix the glitch. It’s fine after than but it’s happened twice so far. It’s scary to me because my last iPad just failed due to a boot loop and motherboard failure, and I’m afraid it might happen again. It may be due to running 2 apps simultaneously with a shortcut, but it’s super annoying. Please fix this glitch if possible.
I updated this app a couple days ago, and now it seems to be missing any suggestions for fixing misspelled words. For instance while re-working an old doc from years ago, I discovered a typo where it said “likeable” with an E and had a red line. So I clicked on it, and all the other options show up like Replace and Define, but no alternative spellings. I also backed up against it and still no options for spellings. This was happening on another doc/different word last night too. Very frustrating to get no spelling options now when trying to write. I fixed “likable” on my own, but there are other times when the grammar spellcheck comes in handy and I’m so disappointed that every time I update this app, I get more issues. To the developers: please, do not ask for more info or a video of the problem in operation; I’ve described it clearly and there’s no reason for you to ask. Never mind that once you developers get that information you disappear and are never heard from again.
So I am not sure why pages gets so many bad reviews. This is a fantastic word processor program. It might not have all the “full desktop” features as Microsoft Office on PC has but the truth of the matter is few people need or would ever use all of the features Microsoft office has. Pages has worked near flawlessly. It is easy to find the features you need and navigate through the app. Very stable and looks good. This is all I use anymore for any kind of writing or longer notes that I have to write. I used to own a surface pro and used PC my whole life before coming to iPad and I can tell you I don’t miss Microsoft office at all. The only thing I wish pages had (and this would include Pages on Mac) is the ability to have both footnotes and endnotes on the same document. Being forced to select one or the other is annoying however in practical terms, writing papers in college only usually require one or the other.
When using track changes, it creates a pop-up window asking to approve or reject a change. So if you are in the middle of typing a document and the text happens to move where the cursor is (magic keyboard) keyboard inputs are stopped and the pop up emerges. If you are trying to place your cursor to make an edit, pop up emerges and cancels keyboard input. This makes it exceedingly difficult to edit documents in collaborative projects as keyboard inputs randomly get turned off over pop ups asking you to accept or reject the changes you are currently making. The closest analogue I can think of is the old days of internet explorer where pop up ads would jump out at you while trying to type an email. It just creates an incredibly disruptive UI when the user is trying to focus on editing a document.
Please disable these pop ups - anyone using track changes can figure out a long-press solution. But people are much more likely to be working on documents with track changes than just reviewing them - the latter takes longer than the former. So please change your default use case scenario for this feature.
I love this app, especially because it allows me to write freely. I love to make books, even though I’m not even ten yet! It’s great that there is no age requirements, even though many people think that you need to be an adult to write books. The way that you can add photos, charts, tables, ornaments, and different text styles is amazing and easy! I love how it isn’t hard to publish books on this amazing app, because you can just tap a button, and it’s on Apple Books! People can have very organized text using pages, and that’s really helpful. Before I used pages, I had a bit of a hard time trying to do everything on notes. I didn’t have the proper tools or templates to write books, so I was never able to. I often tried to read my work, but ended up accidentally touching my keyboard and typing unwanted text. Soon I started using pages and noticed that it is easier to do many things on this app then on notes. This app makes writing easy, whatever age you are!
The Apple Pages software/app is amazingly useful for word processing documents and is also quite capable of producing well organized templates for creating something great.
I have been using Pages on the Mac since it was released, going all the way back to when you had to pay for the privilege to install & use the suite of tools for writing, spreadsheet creation and presentations. I rarely have the need these days for the Keynote program, but use the Pages and Numbers apps on a near daily basis.
This includes preparation of simple word processing documents all the way up to long & complicated contracts with many parts; then they get exported to PDF and signed electronically.
I’m a junior in college and I use pages for every document I need to create. I can say I use this app more than most and I’m pretty experienced with it. I love how integrated the app is with all of your devices. Anything I start on my MacBook easily appears on my iPad and iPhone. I mainly write up documents on the Mac and then use my phone to send my document to my professor. I love this feature and many more which is why I can’t stand using Microsoft Word if I had too. The only thing that is left to be desired is a more easier export of documents on the MacBook. I find that it’s easier to export and send documents on my phone that it is on the MacBook. You can still do it on the MacBook but it’s more cumbersome and a little more time consuming. Overall great app highly recommend you give it a try.
I love this app, (and this applies for Notes too) it’s very helpful when I’m writing books, or creating scripts. But, I have a few suggestions. I think you should be able to zoom out a little more, I think it would just be a little more helpful. Also, please make it so that “Learn Spelling” is ALWAYS there! Whenever I come up with character names and spell them the way I like, sometimes it’s close to another word and WON’T learn spelling, and then I have to tolerate the red lines, but I don’t want to disable autocorrect completely unless I mis-type. Lastly, I think you should make an option, like a little up arrow or something, so that the hot bar disappears. It’s surprising how much space it takes up if you think about it. Thanks for this app though!
Rewriting my review. Used this as a primary word processor for years. With a new update has come a limiting issue for me. When I attempt to drag a document into a folder, it opens the document in a mini window and enables the edit function. Most of the time. Sometimes, rarely, it acts as normal.
This is bizarre, and has to be unintentional. All one needs to do to open a doc is to tap it.
Here's another questionable improvement. For many earlier versions, when you were highlighting something to select it with your fingertip, a bubble would appear over your finger to show you what was under it. For example, if you were selecting a group of text to put in bold or italics, you might like to see if the end of the group, such as punctuation, is included or not before lifting your finger. If you do, and you don't have everything you meant to, you get to try again. Who in the world thought it would improve the program to remove that feature?
Put it on a menu with a toggle switch if someone complained.
Considering other options. Workflow on this app is not smooth anymore. Time to write is precious, if I wanted to waste it fussing with the appliance I'm using... I would not have bought an Apple product.
Baalat Juanice EL
ziggy2500
SilverStar-Burst
Eccl1213
Thalesian
Warlord65546765
Guppy Guy Matt
Marc11vvchn czsdg
evppastor
wisegreydonkey
