And in the question of 2016 vs 365 — I'm averse to subscription models so I have not used 365 and am not planning to unless it becomes impossible not to. But definitely upgrade to 2016! Seriously. You will be much happier with it. 2008 is truly bad; 2016 is just "normal Word bad"
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And I agree that Pages, etc., seem to have never been given more than a half-hearted attempt by Apple. I think serious writers, academics, etc., are just not a big enough market for anyone to really care, esp. on a Mac platform.
All that said, again, if one is doing things relatively — I have had far fewer problems with Office 2016 than I've had with previous versions. When I talk to academics who complain loudly about Word on a Mac they are ALWAYS using 2008. It is seriously sub-par.
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I got hammered during my PhD viva because the Word document I sent to the printer somehow lost its entire style sheet when I hit ‘save’ and emailed it. What my panel received looked like a high schooler’s book report w/o my knowledge. I always have the latest update installed.
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I didn’t even bother to check what was printed b/c I was in a rush and never thought to question that the Word doc I was looking at on my screen would look any different than what I was printing. But I open the saved file later and saw exactly what they complained about
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[it was all the more infuriating because I spent a *lot* of time making the doc look a very specific way, mostly to ensure charts/graphics and chapters all looked as they should. *All* of that was lost & still don’t know why. Had to rebuild from scratch for revised submission.]
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