If you do a lot of typing on your iPhone, iPad or a Mac computer, you may want to find out how many words you have typed so far. Most writers and publishers write with targeted number of words. But ...

Apple's Pages never gets the praise it should, but it's especially unfairly ignored on the iPad where in truth it is an exceptionally easy to use pro writing app.

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.