Word 2008: When deleting a paragraph mark adds one
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 • 10:07 amWhen deleting does not delete.
Archive for the 'Pages' Category
Word 2008 and Pages 3.0: Inconsistent deleting behaviour with selection
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 • 3:21 pmA small, but not insignificant inconsistency in selection deletion in both Word and Pages.
Pages 3 Tip: Custom formats for automatic date
Friday, April 25th, 2008 • 2:03 pmHow to customize date formats for automatic dates in Pages documents.
Word for Windows documents in Mac OS X: Apple’s Pages more compatible than Word 2008
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 • 5:29 pmPages renders the picture just fine, whereas Word 2008 displays a black box.
iWork ‘08: Don’t trust Pages with batch Find/Replace operations
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 • 2:55 pmA really bad bug in Pages’s Find/Replace dialog box.
iWork ‘08: Text selection keyboard shortcuts hijacked in tables
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 • 9:16 amMore details about the dual use of standard keyboard shortcuts for text selection in tables in iWork applications.
Pages 3.0: ‘Whole Word’ searching not French-friendly
Friday, March 14th, 2008 • 2:32 pmA shocking ignorance of French grammar in Pages’ Find/Replace feature.
Pages Tip: How to add space between table and following text
Monday, March 10th, 2008 • 3:52 pmHow to solve a situation created by the absence of a final paragraph mark in Pages documents.
Quick Look: Fails to display superscript/subscript characters properly in Pages documents
Friday, March 7th, 2008 • 2:40 pmThe Quick Look rendering engine for Word files is better than for Pages files!
Pages 3.0: Why can the styles separator bar be clicked on?
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 • 10:53 amWhat is the purpose of the blue highlighting around the grey bar separators in the styles drawer?
Pages 3.0: Keyboard navigation problems in tables actually related
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 • 11:09 pmBasically Pages hijacks the normal (expected) functions of all four cursor keys, depending on where you are in the table cell.
Pages 3.0: More inconsistencies when using keyboard shortcuts in tables
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 • 5:07 pmThe Up and Down cursor keys have undesirable uses when editing text in table cells.
Pages 3.0: Text selection shortcut used for adding rows in tables
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 • 3:06 pmCommon text selection keyboard shortcuts don’t work as expected in table cells.
Preview 4.0: Inconsistent selection behaviours
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 • 2:17 pmHow to get two different things selected at the same time in Preview, and the Clipboard confusion that ensues.
Pages 3.0: Poor handling of space character at very end of line
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 • 10:43 amA weird bug with spaces disappearing into some invisible portion of the document.