12 INSANE NEW IPAD FEATURES: Apple Pages Will DESTROY Microsoft Word in 2023 

Thank you Gurpreet. Really appreciate your continued feedback.

Thank you. The reason i came here was becouse i wanted to see if i could make a picture in between text.

So glad to hear that you have a lovely experience. I always think that this is an underrated think of Apple apps, they might not be as powerful (especially on the desktop) but they are so much nicer to use.

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Glad it was helpful!

Word (on a PC or Mac) is more extendable than Pages, no doubt about it. Still this does not refer to the iPad (which I compared). Students (like most companies) rely on these extensions - I know. This has always been the strength of Microsoft. Outlook has more extension capabilities than Mail, Excel has more than Numbers and so on. Even PowerPoint has more than Keynote - yet a lot of very professional people will tell you that Keynote is more powerful and elegant than PowerPoint. Yet, if you rely on an extension that doesn’t matter. So, you are not choosing Word, because it is the better or more elegant Word processor, but because it is the only one who plays with your favorite other program like Zotero or so. Another case where even if you would like to use Pages, you HAVE TO use Word. Sad but true.

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That‘s what takes a lot of time ;-) I first write a script, then I record myself talking with my main camera (iPhone 14) as A-Roll, then I record the iPad-Screen as B-Roll. I import them in Final Cut and then layer these 2 with my face being on top. Then in Final Cut you can apply a Shape Mask only for the portions where the iPad screenshots are present. With this effect you can create the circle. Then I resize and position it.

Great. Hope you have a lot of fun with this wonderful app.

There will be more videos coming about Pages, but I can‘t tell you when.

Good for you. Hope you enjoy it.

You are very welcome. Enjoy the other videos as well.

Glad you enjoyed

Thank you very much.

Exactly, I use a 12.9” iPad so it is on by default.

Well, the name would be the same but the extension would change to .pages instead of .docx if you convert a file. If you convert you are basically creating a new secondary file with this new extension and new creation date. You would have to delete the .docx file afterwards. I am not sure I would do that on all documents. What you could do is to make Pages the default handler for the file types .doc and .docx (on a Mac), so every time you open that file Pages is launched instead of Word, because Pages can open .doc and .docx files. This way you can see whether Pages handled everything correctly (fonts, spacing, layout etc) and decide on a file basis whether you want to convert that file. There might be some more complex layouts where you might have to do some edits before conversion. And you can decide whether to save as .pages or as .docx file which might be good when working on files together with other Word users. If you don‘t know how to change file type associations on Mac here is a link: www.macrumors.com/how-to/how-to-manage-file-associations-in-macos/

@@patrickstoeckmann Thanks, Patrick, much appreciated.

You can definitely do this. Just select from the 3 Dot menu - Mail Merge, then tap the + button and and then you can tap "Add from spreadsheet".

I used an app called Screenflow on my Mac to record myself and my iPad.

Thanks for the tip. It works. Unfortunately all the formatting is lost, so if I need to keep that I need to resolve to other tools again.

@@patrickstoeckmann Irealized that when I went to move one today….Spoke too soon, sorry bud.

Also you can copy directly from the file preview in the Files app. Same effect, no formatting, just the text. Could be useful nevertheless. If you want to bring over the formatting and structure, you still need 3rd party apps like PDF Expert (and there it is a paid premium feature).

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That is actually the case I use PDFExpert for, since I don‘t like to use free online tools with sensitive material.

@@patrickstoeckmann pdf Expert by Readdle is awesome

I get it with the page margins. You only can change them in 0.5cm steps. But the space before and after a paragraph can be set per paragraph (or per paragraph style) individually on a point basis. So I can change the before to 12pt and the after to 24pt. I find these options pretty great.

That would be nice, but what word processor has this feature yet?

@@patrickstoeckmann Tthere is none on the iPad and thats the point unfortunately. I wrote a book (Foundations of Systemintegration) using pages in my webbrowser on my windows computer. I found out you can do it (the references) using word on your computer. I think this is a very important thing. I considered to get a macbook but i think i will upgrade my ipad to the latest one and a dockingstation to work with my main monitor. Maybe this will work out. But i think they really should work on the ipad OS. This is such a limiting factor. Besides i use my ipad every day and i dont wanna miss it but there are some things you can't just do or figure out a workaround

Don‘t count on Apple adding feature parity soon. In their paradigm the Mac has still a place for doing all the stuff that only a minority of people (like you and me) need (but depend upon). They will add features to those apps on iPad (and later Vision Pro) but the fact that they made it clear that you can connect the Mac (and not the iPad) to Vision Pro (because iPad apps run natively on Vision Pro) shows me, that they plan to keep the Mac for another 10+ years as the main workhorse for specialized tasks (like the one you describe). For people like you (and me) their recommendation would be „Get a Mac“. And I think it might be of more use to you than getting the latest iPad.

I totally agree.

Ditto!

Not a simple question. Generally Mac Pages has more feature, which make it a better match for all „Office“ type use cases. However, drawing and everything connected with the pencil is the domain of the iPad. Your use case defines which is better suited.

Thanks I already bought windows 11 laptop lenovo ryzen 3 7000 but it's desplay is not better to see as of macbook when I saw.Now when I saw your video I thought to buy selling this lap if possible or buy with it ipad.

My concern is to create docs and presentation.in future not now I think to make video content

Give valuable suggestion I have not more money

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Right. There still are use cases (especially when in a business environment where most others are using MS Office) when the MS Office suit makes sense. But it might be less than you think once you know how good Pages, Numbers and Keynote really are. Thanks for the comment.

I agree, although I hope they will improve upon all of them. And even Numbers is way better than Excel on an iPad imo. On a desktop although it is a different game, especially with complex tables. But I guess Apple isn’t going for that demographic, so I don’t see Numbers seriously challenging Excel in the business domain for the foreseeable future. For personal use (and more creative applications) it is a good app though.

Good for you. If you are using Word ONLY for writing text, then it is a good choice (although I would say there are better programs out there on all platforms, but Word has been the standard for so long now). But in a typical business environment Word has long been used for much more. Integration of Excel documents, integration of charts and graphics for reports or homework and mail merge for creating serial letters are now common business and personal every day use cases.

"PDFs (without the apostrophe, being it a simple plural." .....it being a simple plural) close bracket

I don't think it is their greed, but other things are higher on their priority list. And since no other word processor app has yet come close to it (in my opinion) that means that solving some of the problems for the tablet size takes time and effort.

Well on a Mac Word is indeed much closer to its Windows version, so you have a lot more power features. Still not comparable to the Windows version though. Sad. Pages is still a pretty good program here and enough for most personal use cases. In a business environment however you often need Word to cooperate with others, so I use Pages on the Mac for all my personal and business internal needs, but when exchanging with clients I will choose Word.

Actually it does, I just put the bald cap on for videos. Afterwards, I enjoy my long mane ;-)

Exactly, I think most people don't really consider Pages on iPad as powerful as Word or even a close contender.

Neither can you with Word on an iPad. That is the paradigm of a word processor. You don’t copy pages, you copy text. If you want it another way go for another app like keynote where you have each slide separated.

@@patrickstoeckmann actually i found a way with Pages just insert a section first rather than add a page. Then when you duplicate it just duplicate the page. Another reason Pages is better is that you can create a text box and drag it wherever you want. I don’t think Word lets you do that but who knows. Google is the least flexible because it’s more like Word whereas Pages is like a combo of Word plus Adobe InDesign but doesn’t crash

And sorry i didn’t realize this was a video on tablets only

Word also has text fields which you can position anywhere on a page. Of course you could use text fields for this, but the idea is actually different. The idea is that you have the regular flowing text and the you have this inserts (often quotes or highlights from the text) which you put in a text field on either side and the regular text flows around it. This is often used in print. And yes, you can go pretty fancy using text boxes (you can even connect them, so that text flows from one into another). Their templates (brochures etc.) show some of these capabilities.

Yes, at most colleges and universities (and jobs) you often don‘t have a choice. You need to use MS Word. And for most tasks a MacBook (or a PC) would be a much better choice for MS Word. Unfortunately, but that is the world we live in, although the iPad has been around for so long it is still a neglected OS by many big software companies who created their apps in the PC dominant era.

Well, to be honest, Word and Pages both suck at grammar on the iPad. So, there is no winner here, only losers. Which is actually sad. I hope this will be resolved soon by both apps. So far, none of them have real grammar check, only spell checks. For now, I use Grammarly (paid app) when I need to check for grammar on the iPad, but it isn’t an ideal solution, I agree.

@@patrickstoeckmann I definitely feel like a loser. I bought the top of the line iPad with keyboard for its portability. I believe it fully functions at the capacity of mac airbook, so I dont know why Microsoft would limit the features of Word. It’s very frustrating. But hey, I really appreciate your reply. :)

I feel you. These machines are so powerful all that is holding them back is the software. Let's hope for improvements soon. But for now, the Mac is still the workhorse to go, when it comes to long documents or bigger spreadsheets.

I disagree. If I give it to a newbie I bet that most of the time Pages would be easier to learn that Word. An example the unintuitive way moving an image around works. Or styles and style dependencies. Of course it is more powerful, but intuitive is not the first word that comes to my mind. And btw - I am using Word since Windows 3.1 (so I definitely have some years under my belt with it). And when it comes to the iPad version (not the Desktop version), there are so many things which you can‘t do with Word but you can on the iPad. So, for me especially on the iPad Pages is actually the better program.

It’s really a whole lot easier then word. Especially when you want to line things out, to make it visually appealing

I was a Windows user for over 20 years before I switched everything to Apple. Ever since I started using Pages, I have no desire to use Words anymore.

Agree to disagree, and so do a lot of others. If you leave the Format sidebar open you have immediate access to all of these options with one click. It is just another paradigm than the ribbon that MS uses. If you are used to that and are not able to work with other paradigms then good that there are lots of options.

You can do Roman numerals with Pages. In the Format menu under Bullet & Lists - Numerical - click on the i symbol and there you can change the numbers format. Lots of options here including Roman Numerals.

Indeed - or maybe Word is like one of those Zombies. It can't die. 🤣🤣🤣