> Word fails for a very simple reason: they've shoehorned structural editing functions, with styles and sections and so forth, into an editor that traditionally

> Word fails for a very simple reason: they've shoehorned structural editing functions, with styles and sections and so forth, into an editor that traditionally worked like WordPerfect In that regard, Pages is (was? didn't really use the new one) really awesome. Although it allows for arbitrary text settings to be applied percharacter, its UI actively encourages use of styles thanks to the now defunct drawer and various UI nudges and hints. As a consequence you were actively defining structure of your text, and intuitively understood that appearance is only applied as a side effect. Combined with styles being assigned F1-F12 shortcut keys and you had a wonderful piece of software that allowed my then-student girlfriend to type lectures and have them structured and typeset properly on the fly. It really highlights how the whole style-thing management in Word is absolutely horrendous.