August 7, 2007

The Last Word

Posted by Eric at 4:46 pm | Category: News, Technology

Hopefully, I will never have to touch Microsoft Word ever again, thanks to Apple. The new version of their word-processing and page layout program, “Pages”, finally has a “change tracking” feature, which is apparently compatable with Microsoft Word’s Track Changes. This was really the last reason for me to use Word, which I’ve avoided as much as I can with LaTeX. Word was slow, buggy, and not native to Intel Macs (making them even slower). It was also kind of a pain to use. Now that I can do the editing in Pages, I don’t have any need for Word, other than to open the occasional file sent to me. But that’s what PDFs are for, right?

3 Responses to “The Last Word”

  1. John Wilkins Says:
    August 7th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    Well, there’s still Endnote compatibility… but I totally agree.

  2. Eric Says:
    August 8th, 2007 at 12:16 am

    True, Endnote is a problem, but I generally prefer to use BiBTeX, which works with LaTeX, and can be made to work via import and export with Endnote. Unfortunately, opening an Endnote database still requires a copy of Endnote…

  3. Ben Says:
    August 8th, 2007 at 1:01 am

    Sadly, my need to use Word is motivated more by the fact that everyone else does :( than any personal desire to.

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