Take Control of Working with Your iPad

Chapter 12. Work with Text

When I developed the initial outline for this book, long before the iPad shipped, I imagined that a discussion of Apple's Pages app would be pretty much the beginning and end of what needed to be said about word processing. Although I do talk about Pages just ahead, it has turned out to be, in my opinion, exactly the wrong solution for most common day-to-day word processing tasks. By all means, purchase and use Pages if you like, but before you jump to the conclusion that it's the best way to create and edit styled-text documents, read on to learn about some important limitations—and some excellent alternatives.

At the end of this section, I take a moment to explore apps that perform another crucial text-related task: ...