Education You can find tutorials within your word processing program or online, or take a course, either online or in your community, that instructs people in word-processing basics.

But I’ve found that nothing beats my Improbable, Impractical Word Processing Machine when it comes to distraction-free writing. I can’t Alt+Tab over to check an email or two.

Pages, Apple's alternative to Microsoft Word, is deceptively simple. Here are three ways to get the most of Apple's free word processing app, including a Pages cheat sheet.