I’m trying to type a paper about the cinematic features of Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy for one of my classes, and I’m using Pages to do it. I’m typing up my Works Cited page and one line starts with “1972″ because I’m citing the DVD of Frenzy I watched, and the movie was released in 1972. Well, Pages thinks it’s so smart and keeps trying to start the next line with “1973″. I hit enter, it starts the next line with “1973″, I hit backspace, it deletes “1973″ but also takes me back to the end of the previous line. I tried turning off “Automatically detect lists” but that didn’t fix it. I tried moving the tab stop over and then deleting “1973″, but that didn’t fix it. I tried doing “Shift-tab” to un-indent and then deleting “1973″, but that didn’t fix it. I tried hitting enter again after seeing “1973″ appear, since that usually gets out of a list in word processors, but that just causes another line with “1974″ to appear. Basically, I can’t get it to just give me a single goddamn blank line. If it’s going to be as ridiculous as all that, insisting no, user, you’re too stupid to format things yourself–this is what you want even after I turn off such “features”, then I just have no use for it. OpenOffice or Microsoft Office, here I come.
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wow, that truly sucks :/
I prefer Microsoft Office, even if MS is kind of stigmatized these days. I tried Openoffice when I lost my Ms Word instalation DVD, and I can’t stand it. It’s not even a matter of getting used to it, like I first thought. I was specially annoyed at how slow it was, then at how it set the default margin to be .76 (that means having to write more to meet certain page requirements for a university assignment) but what truly and ultimately annoyed me was the lack of Spanish dictionary, therefore the lack of spellcheck in Spanish. And how hard is it to install a dictionay? Practically impossible. Word gets 10 chocolates in the dictionary / spellcheck / thesaurus department.
There ends my rant on openoffice :D I hope you find the software that works best for you!
Never heard of Pages but I did hear that OpenOffice is pretty slow. I haven’t tried it yet myself but I probably will. :D Good luck!
I’ve only played with the trial version of Pages, but that was about it. I wasn’t willing to pour out money for it when I could just get a word processor for free. ^_^;
At the moment, I use OO.o for Mac. I’ve haven’t really experienced any of the slowness yet. (I’m waiting for them to come out with the Aqua port. I’m curious to see how that will be.) I heard AbiWord is a lighter, simpler version of OO.o, but haven’t really tried it out…
My thoughts would be to try and write a random line both above and below your “number” line… So you already have a line below it and it can’t put another number in front. Or try putting a space in front of the number.
That sucks so bad though, I get pretty frustrated with crap like that.
You might try NeoOffice, which is the Mac version of OpenOffice, intended to be integrated closer with the appearance of OS X.