Hi Chris and others: I'm curious now. I just opened a Word attachment. I then saved it in documents, where it stayed a "dot doc" file. I went into documents and opened it with text edit, made some changes, and then saved it again as a " word file. So, I'm not clear what's the issue here?
Carolyn H On Jan 16, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > I agree, it would be nice but show me a word processor that does this apart > from MS Word? Companies would have to probably pay quite high to licence > this from Microsoft. When pages 09 came out it was the only word processor > on the mac that could read and write to the docx format. Not even Office for > the Mac could do that at the time. > > Maybe (not sure if this is already the case) but if you open a word document > in pages and make changes to it and then save, it would be nice if it was > saved back to the default file type which pages opened. I can see the > benefits in that. Maybe there is a script out there which can help. > > Chris > On 16 Jan 2011, at 17:30, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Please excuse me for putting my 2 cents in but, I think the Original post >> is still valid. It seems to have been lost in the war of words following >> though. It seems silly to not be able to just set a default format of your >> choosing. Especially since Word formats are pretty much what 90% of the >> world uses. Regardless of how easy it is to export or save as a word >> document, that doesn't mean you want to do it every time. After all, >> technology main purpose is to make our lives easier, not make us have to >> repeat time wasting tasks. On the flip side, I didn't hear the slight in >> Anne's use of the word complain. But then again, Its all in the eye of the >> beholder. But I think this might have just been a misunderstanding. >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rwalker...@gmail.com >> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 >> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 >> >> >> >> On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:06 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote: >> >>> Ah, my mawmaw said the same thing, smiles! Heather >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Moore" <moor...@blueyonder.co.uk> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 1:00 PM >>> Subject: Re: :pages export annoyance >>> >>> >>> Take a chill pill my friend, as my gran always used to say "you catch more >>> flies with sugar then vinegar". Now breathe with me "out with anger, in >>> with love" lol >>> >>> >>> But seriously, exporting is easy, i have only had Pages for a couple of >>> hours and it is easy. If you use OpenOffice, WordPerfect, WordPro etc etc >>> their default document type is not MS Word but can import and export to >>> that format. Microsoft Word hold the exclusive ability to have .doc format >>> type as their default as it is their product. That is the case on both the >>> Mac and Windows. >>> >>> am sure if you could use MS Word on the Mac then that would solve your >>> issue. >>> >>> Chris >>> On 15 Jan 2011, at 18:50, Yuma Decaux wrote: >>> >>>> Chris, >>>> >>>> I must have changed the subject to "issue with pages i wish to resolve". >>>> And yes, i apologize for having a chip on my shoulder, but i'm also not >>>> here to listen to people speak to me as if i'm the bad guy not liking >>>> apple products or something, and putting in words like "complaining" which >>>> is synonymous to "bitching" etc on a totally legitimate question. A >>>> question, you know? >>>> >>>> So yea, its probably a compatibility issue and i haven't had enough coffee >>>> this sunday morning, and perhaps the sky is dark, or i fell on the wrong >>>> side of the bed, which incidentally will not be empty starting today, or >>>> many other reasons. But this doesn't resolve the fact that i want to >>>> export to certain formats by default. But people made it a case to say i'm >>>> bitching over this. >>>> >>>> So this is a half apology. And i don't care anymore if i can't export by >>>> default. 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