Hello Dan, When converting files from MS Word to Pages, there are problems with the positioning of text boxes, the text within shapes, borders around paragraphs and some fonts that are not available in Pages. There are even some fonts that are not available in Word for Mac but are in Word for Windows.
As you so rightly say, there are virtually no problems converting from Pages to MS Word, all the formatting is retained. Cheers, Anne On 30 Jul 2012, at 05:37, Dan Roy wrote: > I would love to get rid of office, I absolutely hate it. However, most of > the working world is using it. My wife has to use it every day. She wants to > work from home and is afraid of incompadabilities between office and IWorks, > I thought the files could be interchanged without a problem, but, from > reading a lot of posts on this list, I am finding out otherwise. > > Oh, stupid me, I assumed if she was using pages and saved the file as an > Office 2007 or whatever, that it would be ok, but, if she starts out working > in office, then, opens it in pages and goes to save it back to office, I take > it that's ware the problem lies. > > I am glad to know this, she would have killed me for recommending she do > that. She would then be forced to go out and buy Office for the Mac. Yes, > she is fully sighted. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
