Word is the standard so you're better off going with it even if Pages can export doc files. I usually use Open Office and its doc files get weird formatting problems when I send them to people Word. Word files are required by a lot of people. I've had them be required for applying to art shows, resumes and submitting stories to publications. Word just makes life easier when you have to share files. I'd even recommend installing Windows through Bootcamp. I had a Macbook for years and the last time I tried to go to school the online software for classes didn't work on a Mac.
Since 90% of the computers use Office as a default, this is really good advice. All I could add is that maybe you want to make sure you can convert your files to PDF, that way your margins and fonts are locked in so your document will not only be able to be printed from pretty much any computer at that point, but you can be sure that it looks the way you want it no matter what computer you use to open it.
Huh, I've never met anyone who wanted a .doc instead of a .pdf - that's insane. It's pretty straightforward to make a PDF, at least with libreoffice - Just choose "export as PDF" in the "File" menu. I'd think it's similiarly easy in other word porcessors?
Yeah . . . But not really. Professionally and academically PDFs are pretty much an acceptable standard except for the most computer illiterate. Even your everyday phone can read a PDF without any additional apps. Like I said, the biggest benefit with PDF comes to when you want your files printed, because with few exceptions what you see on your computer that created the file is what you'll get, whether it's a report, a resume, blueprints, what have you.
Learned my way around Acrobat this summer at an internship. PDFs are dank.
It does, but you're better off using dedicated OCR software and then converting to PDF
Yep, it was a law firm so every paralegal's computer pretty much had OCR running in the background all day, while our client's targets were producing their documents to us. It's appallingly slow even with top-tier computers :(
Thanks! Ah, I would partition my drive but it's a solid state and I only have 250GB of storage in the first place. Half of it is used up already :'(