Word is a dismal program.
I've not spent lots of time with pages, but did a few cursory tests of creating a few different layouts, including tables, then exporting as html, .doc, pdf and found that the cross document fidelity was unusually good. Generally, stuff looked like it was supposed to.
And the UI is dead simple.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush