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How to convert Mac pages to Microsoft Word?
Can anyone help? A collegue has an interview today and needs her cv. She has emailed it to me, but has emailed it in Mac Pages format.
As I work on a PC, I am unable to open it. Is there anyway I can convert it on line or any special way I can get it to open in word?
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The only way to get it to open in Word is for her to resend it in Word format. Pages can save it in many formats as well as it's own, including Word.
Get her to open the document in Pages, choose "Save As.." and choose Word doc type. Alternatively get her to print the document, when the print dialog box opens click on the pdf button and choose "Save as pdf" to create a pdf document of the CV.
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Thanks - but ......
I too, have the similar Mac to Word conversion problems, and have tried your suggestions. I found that just saving the Pages document, with "word" placed at the end of the stream did not correct the problem. An error message was given. I suspect it is like calling an elephant a fish - it doesn't work until you get God's approval first. Not that Mac is godlike, but they must have a format where this conversion can happen, but they don't tell you so.
I also tried going into Print (which is a convoluted way of finding a supposed way to convert a Pages document - why not put this in Pages set-up. I find the Mac not very intuitive. Anyway...) I have tried the converting to pdf, and sending that as an attachment - it only works sometimes. Most times, the recipient still cannot open the document. I have the Mac Leopard OS, so why aren't they out of the ice age? And, when I am typing, the program tries to anticipate what it thinks I want to say and it changes the word on me. I have gone into the "spelling" prompt and shut it off - doing so only works for the next word typed - it will not stay "off'. I am starting to feel sorry for having gone the Mac route. Your comments would be appreciated. Jim |
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Do you have MS office for mac?
Does anyone know how to change the spelling to English rather than US on a mac? |
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if it's the latest version, its review tab then set language, and in mac word open the doc, then click save as, then under the file name at the bottom click file type, and save as ms word doc
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Older office is tools-languages.
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Open MS Word, under the 'Tools' menu select 'Language' and then scroll until you find 'English (UK)'. Select it and close the window. Voila! Uk spell checking and keyboard all set! HTH
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Yes that works for word but it has an auto spell checker for all other text, like oople, it is still in US mode for those though
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OSX is warning you that you are changing the file extension, which means it can no longer be recognised by the application that created it even though you haven't actually physically changed the file type, just the name. BTW the Macs not that god like, if you don't want the warnings in the Finder choose Preferences in the Finder menu, choose the Advanced option in the top row and untick the "Show warning before changing an extension." Irritating warnings fixed. I don't have Pages, but even the basic Textedit program can save documents as Word files. When you save the document, using 'Save As' from the File menu, you have the 'File Format' option. Click on this in the list and choose Word format, then Save. You will know it is saved as a Word document as the file extension will be .doc Quote:
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Go to the Edit menu in Pages, move to Spelling, and the sub menu will give you the option to turn off the 'Check Spelling As You Type'. If you choose just 'Check Spelling' it will just underline the misspelled words without correcting them. As I don't have Pages I guess that if you go to the Preferences in Pages there should also be an option to turn off the spelling entirely.
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I had the same issue today. I sent a PAGES doc to a friend that uses WORD.
I called my Apple help line (my computer is new so this help is free for me: 1-800-275-2273) and the quick version is as follows: Open the document in Pages (that you want to convert), Click FILE, then SAVE AS, then check the box SAVE COPY AS (WORD DOCUMENT will highlight), then RENAME DOCUMENT, then check the box HIDE OR UNHIDE EXTENSION, then SAVE! BAM! Your are done. Attach and send the document to a PC user and should be able to view it . . .. Deb |
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