One of the most negative aspects of Google Docs is the user interface, a very unintuitive user interface and that in most cases, the icons of the functions mislead us. Like Pages, Google Docs uses its own format, a format that not compatible with Microsoft Word or Apple Pages, so we must convert the file to a supported format before sharing it with other people who do not use Google Docs. The number of features available in Google Docs it is much more limited Of which we can find in Pages, however, it is an excellent option for all those users who need a basic word processor and without additional functions.
Google docs, really it is not an application but it is a web service We can access it from any browser, so we can use it from any operating system.Īs it is a Google product that works via the web, the operation of Google Documents it will be faster as long as we use Google Chrome, Google's browser or any other Chromium-based web browser, such as Microsoft Edge Chromium. Google documentsĪn interesting completely free alternative to Word on a Mac is Google Docs.
Pages, like Numbers and Keynote, the other applications that are part of iWork (Apple's Office) are available for your download completely free, like the version for iOS and iPadOS.
In most cases, we will not encounter any problem in the conversion, however, if it is a somewhat complex document, the structure can be affected forcing us to edit it later.
docx, the format used by Microsoft's Word. The Pages app, uses its own format to create and save documents, a format that is not compatible with any other text document editing application, so it is not a good option if the documents you create have to be shared with other non-Mac users.įortunately, from Pages we can export the documents we create to other compatible formats, such as. Pages has always been the official alternative that Apple offers to macOS users, an application that over the years has been adding a large number of functions, functions that were already present in Word for many years.