I like pages. I have both the latest versions of microsoft office and pages. I use both. Word is slow to load and a bit cumbersome, but I am familiar with it due to years of using it.

Pages threw me off for a short while. It is more of a word processor crossed with a desktop publisher in my estimation. I have grown more accustomed to this and found it to be very handy.

I like being able to throw pictures in quickly, put outlines, shadows, effects, all with quick clicks. They aren't anchored in a sentence, but rather, positioned on a page. Easily.

The learning curve wasn't that hard to be honest, but it is a learning curve. I'm not the biggest fan of all the boxes appearing to the side with the tools and options, but hey, it works and I'm getting more used to it. Also learning to use short cuts where available and menu options on the top of the menu bar.

I think the value is outstanding, especially for what all you get. Compared with Word, the price can't be beat.

I'm not crazy how it will auto reload every last project. I'm sure there is a way to turn that off, but haven't taken the time to do that yet. I suppose I will when it drives me nuts enough.

I do recommend pages, purchased it for my daughters instead of word (mostly price, but also the desktop publishing side of it).

Good program, affordable, recommended, and family friendly, whatever that might mean ;)

Pages is excellent. It does most of what Appleworks used to do, but with countless enhancements. It's very easy to use and very easy to turn out polished professional looking documents.

MS Word 2011 shows pride for its accomplishment as a word processor - but it's interesting that Pages has the same template interface and ease of use. It's rock solid and fast (unlike the MS menus, which sometimes don't load until the second or third attempt). For 90% of all your text, and maybe more, Pages is convenient and user friendly.

Pages is an impressive, powerful word processor - though it takes some time to get used to its features. Many of its options are hidden "under the hood" - but its design becomes clear enough once you've used it for a certain amount of time.

Pages will not replace Word. As others have said, Pages is fine if you are home user making newsletters, letters and doing some light editing on documents. But if you are writing papers for university (that's me) or doing office work, get ready to be frustrated with the iWorks suite.

I meant, Pages doesn't have:
1) footnotes and endnotes can't appear on the same document
2) right clicking on a word and use the thesaurus to replace a word
3) nested tables (a feature btw, Word had since 1995)
4) save documents as docx (come on!)
5) a decent chart maker tool
5) and oh, if you are working with another language other than English, expect your document in Pages look like it got hit by a bus!

When I use the temples either Mac or I have created in 2.0.2 pretty soon a extra bar appears beside my working-space paper. Its grey, like the space "under" my "paper." I can't move to document to occupy it, its just there taking up screen space and bumping out the styles drawer on that side. Worse, when I print (to paper or pdf), this gray area is considered paper, my entire document *shrinks* to allow an extra 1-1.5 inches on the right margin! It keeps my document proportionally correct, so adds additional margin on top. This shrunken image is not the page I laid out!

I can't find a way to make the side bar go -- its not on the paper, Pages has no tools to access the spaced under the "paper." This kills the usefulness of any template.

Does anyone know how to fix this?