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Creating Pages with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide

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Wow, what a bargain! Here's what's so GREAT about this book:

1) The chapters are clearly organized and thought out. Each chapter provides you with a quick, fun, creative project in which you painlessly learn about many of Pages' key program fundamentals.

2) The book provides its instructions in a clear, visual, step-by-step manner that makes learning VERY EASY, yet effective!

3) This author loves to use full-color illustrations, which makes following the author's instructions a real snap.

4) More than a simple word processor -- this author teaches you how to create NEAT projects that look great. You will learn how to create professional-looking projects in this book.

5) Doesn't waste your time. I completed this book within a couple of days and was able to immediately start publishing all kinds of neat publications afterwards.

My summary -- BUY THIS BOOK!! You won't regret it. Wow, what a bargain!

The author has chosen a good range of projects for this work. They closely match the projects we're involved with in our local Parents and Citizens group to help out at our daughter's school. Very convenient.

The presentation allows for either staged progress through the content or more random access to concepts as you need them.

It's short enough to be digestible but contains most of what you need in Pages, short of AppleScript and other more advanced topics.

If you're relatively new to Pages and would like a good way in this book is probably for you. If you are a more advanced Pages user or have a lot of word processing experience in general you would probably benefit more from a more advanced treatment.

This book does what it sets out to do very well.

Pages was great when originaly itroduced. Now, in version 2.0, it has exceeded its own expectations to provide excellence wel beyond the ordinary. This edition of "Creating Pages with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide"
by David Morris, will provide you with the best any "how to" guide could offer. If you love Macs, if you appreciate Pages, you will be blown away wih the quaity of not only Pages 2.0, but also the manner in which the information is presented in Moriss' "Creating Pages with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide."

Pages is a very powerful program with tons of features hiding in its nooks and crannies. But unless you think just like Steve Jobs, Pages isn't very intuitive, at least for me, particularly since I was used to Microsoft Word's menus and formats. This book provided a great introduction to Pages. It walks you through a number of projects, shows you how to use many of the features, and gives you the tools to ferret out more features on your own. My only complaint is that this is a slim book and doesn't cover everything that Pages can do. That would require a book three or even four times as big. Still, it covers about 95% of what I really need to know. Bottom line: a VERY worthwhile book, highly recommended.

The book is nicely illustrated however when I attempted to find the downloads that are suppose to be available from the companion site at Peachpit Press, they are no longer there. The book was published in 2006 which probably explains the problem.