Q: Adopting iWork Suite
Hello,
My specs are as follows:
My issue is that I have spent 20 years using Windows-based programs and recently converted over to Apple products and software, almost 100% exclusively.
I own an IT Support business, where I assist businesses and individuals in creating and managing their systems and devices. As part of my business, more on an operational basis, I have made it my goal to use iWork apps exclusively, so as to have all of my documents and files stored in iCloud and accessible across all of my devices (iPhone 6 Plus, iPad 3, MacBook Air 13").
Given my goal, I understand that most of my corporate clients use programs such as Office365 or OpenOffice. Part 1 of my question is, when I open a Word doc (.docx), is there a way that I can easily copy the content and paste it into Pages? I constantly run into the issue of "Some formatting cannot be copied into Pages," and the resulting document is not pretty.
Part 2 of my question is, assuming that the above issue can be resolved, is there a process where I can create and share/collaborate with others who may not use iWork and avoid the formatting issues?
There is quite a few more sub-questions I have regarding this, that I would like to address based on the responses I get from readers, so I will wait for those to come in!
Thanks,
Michael
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Aug 13, 2016 9:52 AM
Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are not clones of their Microsoft application counterparts, and you are not opening the corresponding documents in their native document architecture. Apple's applications translate the original Microsoft format into the respective Apple application internal document format when the documents are opened, and translate in reverse when they are exported. Apple does not guarantee fidelity in this translation process. Want more accuracy? Then use Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac, and open, edit, and save the documents in their native format.
Apple's applications only deal with fonts that are actually installed on your Mac. Microsoft's Office applications allow one to apply bold and italic faces to regular fonts, and when these documents are opened in Apple's applications, you will get a warning when that bold or italic treatment is not met with a comparable installed font face.
There are features that are unique to Apple's and Microsoft's applications that are mutually exclusive, and will always introduce document interchange issues when they are incorporated into shared documents.
Posted on Aug 15, 2016 7:37 PM
