However, Pages vs. Word is another thing. I have completed nearly 4,000 resumes to date for my clients. These range from H.S. students looking for a local job, to CEO’s earning more money annually than I can pronounce. Among my clients there have been many people involved with MS Word in a many ways. Still, no one seems to want, need or use most of what word has to offer. Many simply find it cumbersome. To some, it’s the 45 pound Swiss Army Knife in your pocket. It’s just unwieldy and clumsy. Most just use it for the simple formatting routings, bold, italics, underline, etc. Very few people even explore the ‘depths’ of what it has. And, consistency has always been a problem with it. It seems that a word document sent to other windows computers running word will sometimes not format the same way on all of them. I have been told by numerous ‘high level’ computer people that this is a known issue. But, they live with it because it’s the ’standard’.

Not so when I prepare a resume in Pages and export it to Word. The formatting is consistent and as it was intended to be.

By the way, why does such a large percentage of Word users NOT know how to use tabs? So many of them simply space things to line them up. Could it be that MS just has not made these things easy or intuitive. Might it also be that many have had it with trying to master many microsoft programs and simply won’t deal with such minor issues? With Pages this is very easy.

While I can agree with your opinion of Numbers (version 1.0), I don’t think that Word outshines Pages at all. I think Pages is the program that MS wishes it could have produced.