mgwilliams410

Q: Adopting iWork Suite

Hello,

 

My specs are as follows:

 

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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

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  • by think.different,

    think.different think.different Aug 13, 2016 10:53 AM in response to mgwilliams410
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    Aug 13, 2016 10:53 AM in response to mgwilliams410

    Are you opening the .doc/.docx directly into Pages or first in Word and then copy/pasting into a blank pages doc?

     

    You can use .doc .xls .ppt as a format in Pages/Numbers/Keynote and save then into iCloud Drive. You just need to remember to use "Export to" rather than "save/save as" when you want to save the doc.

  • by mgwilliams410,

    mgwilliams410 mgwilliams410 Aug 13, 2016 11:56 AM in response to think.different
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    Aug 13, 2016 11:56 AM in response to think.different

    It's been awhile since I've fooled with it, but the existing Office files I have tried have been opened in Word/Excel and I copy the data and paste into iWork.

     

    I will try to find the "Export to" function and see if that gives me the results I want. Thanks! Will let you know!

  • by think.different,Helpful

    think.different think.different Aug 13, 2016 12:05 PM in response to mgwilliams410
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    Aug 13, 2016 12:05 PM in response to mgwilliams410

    You should just be able to open the files directly which pages. On a .doc if you right click, Get Info, under Open With change this to Pages and then click Change All. This will then make all .doc's open in Pages by default.

  • by mgwilliams410,

    mgwilliams410 mgwilliams410 Aug 13, 2016 12:07 PM in response to think.different
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    Aug 13, 2016 12:07 PM in response to think.different

    I'm glad you mentioned that. It reminded me that I did discover that under "Get Info," and tried the "Open With" and "Change All" feature. Again, it was 6 months ago that I tried to start the process of transitioning all of my .docs to iWork. If I remember correctly, the reason I stopped was because after doing that, I ran into another road block. I will work on that again in the next day or two and update you on my progress. Thank you for being so helpful!

  • by VikingOSX,Solvedanswer

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Aug 15, 2016 7:37 PM in response to mgwilliams410
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    Aug 15, 2016 7:37 PM in response to mgwilliams410

    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.