Pages for iPad Review – A great app for some tasks (NaNoWriMo special review)
App Type: Uncategorized
Our rating: 
By: Apple Inc.
Version #: 1.5
Date Released: 2011-10-12
Developer: Apple Inc.
Price: 9.99
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We are making a batch of reviews of great writing apps for November. Why November? Because NaNoWriMo is going on! What is NaNoWriMo? The National Novel Writing Month! You have a month to write a full novel, and the month is November. And the iPad could be your 2.0 typewriter.
Pages is the great player in the writing app game. Backed by Apple, it should represent the top in writing for iPad. Does it stand up to par?
Well, for some kind of writing is the perfect app. Slim, handy. Effective. Feels like you have the real Pages (or an app looking like Word) in your iPad. No regrets, but nothing awesome really. This is not an app for writers, but an app for writing. Like in writing a quick memo, or setting a voucheur.
As usual with Apple’s productivity suite, comes equipped with a decent tutorial to get you started, and after all, this is just for writing. But…. You can insert tables and charts, and edit the raw data used in them. Inserting shapes or images is equally easy. And comes with (by default off) word count.
Full blown, handy and effective. Maybe you won’t write the next American novel, but Pages may be perfect for writing your resumé.
Quick Take
Value:Extremely high
Would I Buy Again:Maybe
Learning Curve:High
Who Is It For:Professionals on the go
What I Like:The range of features
What I Don't Like:Maybe a little pricy
Final Statement:Very well designed, very well executed
ipad Get started quickly.
• Choose from 16 Apple-designed templates and styles to instantly create beautiful letters, reports, flyers, cards, and posters.
• Customize your document with the colors, fonts, and textures you like.
• View and edit Pages ’09, Microsoft Word, and plain text files. Easily import files from Mail, the web, a WebDAV service, or your Mac or PC using iTunes File Sharing.
• Use iCloud to start editing your document exactly where you left off on another iOS device.
• Drag and drop Pages ’09, Word, or plain text documents to icloud.com from your Mac or PC to have them automatically appear on your iOS devices.
Edit and format your document.
• Write and edit documents using the onscreen keyboard or a wireless keyboard with Bluetooth technology.
• Easily add images to your document using the Media Browser. Use dynamic text wrapping to flow text around images.
• Browse through your document using the page navigator and see a thumbnail preview of each page.
• Create footnotes and endnotes and view improved word counts with character, paragraph, and page counts.
• Organize your data with beautiful charts and tables.
• Pages automatically saves your documents as you make changes.
• Use Undo to go back through your previous changes — even the next time you open your document.
Share your work.
• Share your work by exporting as a Pages ’09, Microsoft Word, or PDF file and sending it via Mail. Or publish your documents to iWork.com public beta to share with anyone on a Mac or PC.
• Print wirelessly with AirPrint, which includes page range selection, number of copies, and two-sided printing.
• Copy documents to a WebDAV service or directly to your Mac or PC using iTunes File Sharing.
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Article By ruben
Ruben Berenguel is finishing his PhD in Mathematics while writing in mostlymaths.net about being a 'geek of all trades'. He also happens to be the senior editor in the What's on iPhone network: any complaints go to him!
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