That is so far from my experience that I’m not sure we’re talking about the same software.
I’ve been using Pages for years, and Word for longer, and there is almost nothing I can do in Word that I can’t do in Pages.
And I just spent all day today doing things in Keynote (animations) that might be technically possible in PP but are so tedious that it’s not worth doing.
Pages and Keynote are great apps but their UIs are a lot cleaner than their MS equivalents, and many capabilities are subtlety implemented and occasionally context dependent. If you like the MS UI then you’ll need to adjust to Apple’s, but I’ll take Pages and Keynote over the MS equivalents any day of the year.
This is my experience with Keynote too: the UX appears minimalist which can make it seem like it has less features. In fact, they’re all there: just cleverly weaved into context dependent UI. And the quality of the animations really is a cut above. Particularly like that I can export the slideshow as a movie which we use for trade shows etc.
Yeah - I have exported loops for trade shows, and I did something similar in my work today.
PP does animations but the UI is so clunky, I just don’t have the patience with it, and it shows in the quality of what I produce. That’s the thing about Keynote in particular - I enjoy using it.
Because for my occasional use Pages has been fine, but Numbers breaks almost every existing spreadsheet I've tried, and doesn't seem nearly as capable as even Google Sheets.
Yeah I like Numbers but it’s not as good at the other tools relative to MS, and sometimes I’ll just end up using Excel because I can’t do what I need in Numbers. It’s certainly the weakest of the three IMO.
I like how you can create multiple tables on a sheet, but the graphing is pretty average and the data tools are not as good. I haven’t had need to use it recently but the new addition of pivot tables after all these years suggests I should give it a go.
I’ve been using Pages for years, and Word for longer, and there is almost nothing I can do in Word that I can’t do in Pages.
And I just spent all day today doing things in Keynote (animations) that might be technically possible in PP but are so tedious that it’s not worth doing.
Pages and Keynote are great apps but their UIs are a lot cleaner than their MS equivalents, and many capabilities are subtlety implemented and occasionally context dependent. If you like the MS UI then you’ll need to adjust to Apple’s, but I’ll take Pages and Keynote over the MS equivalents any day of the year.