Comments on: Academic Appeal: Comparing Pages and Word 2008

By: Jose Rivera

Jose Rivera — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:48:17 +0000

Very good article. Citations management is I think one of the most important factors to consider before you go out to buy either Pages or Word. As some other people mentioned, compatibility with Endnote, or BiBDesk, Senta, Bookends should be considered. If you add other options to the mix such as using Scrivener to create the draft, makes it even more challenging.

By: florestan

florestan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:34:51 +0000

In these comparative reviews, there is almost never any mention of superior alternatives to EndNote, such as Sente and Bookends. Both work very well Pages AND Word, and can be used with Scrivener. These products are stable, functional, pretty and designed for the Mac – unlike EndNote which seems to be a terribly expensive Windows app ported to the Mac. Thomson Reuters, the develper of EndNote, should be embarrassed to offer such a crappy product at such a high price. Academic licences for Sente and Bookends are $89 and $69 respectively. If I remember correctly, EndNote costs $199 with academic discount.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:12:46 +0000

Not sure it its getting through, while the other solutions are appreciated. Professors are already on limited time, they are viewing at least 1000 papers, they don’t have time seek out alternate systems and software to view a students electronic paper, which is the reason they are “specific” on the format they will accept.

I can’t see what’s so hard to understand about that concept. Send it to me in a file that I can open and read or it doesn’t get graded. Simple

By: Vadim Iablokov

Vadim Iablokov — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:54:39 +0000

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and CiteInPages doesn’t work anymore. Something wrong with the scripts all of a sudden, anyone know how to fix this or have the same issue?

By: Bunnz

Bunnz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:04:58 +0000

Am using keynote now and needed to print the slides for my hardcopy. But I can’t look for the header/footnotes for insertion of other stuff. Having a hard time now.

By: mech

mech — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:24:29 +0000

not sure who inquired, but this entry will probably not be read anyway…

an alternative to mark up all your PDFs is SKIM. amazing opensource alternative to pro Acrobat. Also, I hear Preview should now have the option to mark up your PDFs.

Skim requires some but very little “get to know”. It saves all comments as metadata that is not easily transported. BUT, there is an option to save the PDF WITH the comments embedded.

cheers

By: Academic Appeal: Five Apps for the iPhone-toting Student

Academic Appeal: Five Apps for the iPhone-toting Student — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:02:06 +0000

[...] and No one has commented With the academic year about to begin, and having already tackled the important issues of iWork vs. Office, it’s time to turn our attentions to the iPhone. With over 65,000 apps on the App Store, even [...]

By: Jeff Peach

Jeff Peach — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:54:25 +0000

We just bought a site license for iWork for our middle school for 249 dollars from Apple. MS Office wants somewhere between 40 to 80 dollars per machine. 150 machines x ?? do the math. We are considering moving to IWork.

By: Krapster

Krapster — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:57:39 +0000

Word users: (poor you) You can avoid Word 08 outputting .docx files altogether by opening Preferences > Save and choose .doc as the default format for saving.

BTW can anyone tell me why the Hxxx Word still doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut for “Save as…”?

By: Mark Crump

Mark Crump — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:55:48 +0000

As I said earlier, “While you’re correct, I’ve found a lot of teachers mark up the file with comments when they grade it. I don’t know if there’s a way to do that with the non-pro version of Acrobat.”

I’ve had teachers refuse a .docx file even though a converter is available. I’m finding when they say they want a .doc file, they aren’t kidding.