Microsoft Word docs are formatted wrong when opened in pages

Hi Frank,

I do have the same problem with documents formatted with MS Word, and I think there is nothing to do about it.
Try EverSave for the "auto-save" problem. It works great, you can adjust the interval and the way you want to save documents, I have been using it for a couple a month and I think it is a very useful freeware.

Matteo

I've not tested extensively but so far I've seen Pages '09 import Word documents with greater accuracy but everything I've opened has been created with the newest version of Word - Mac and Windows. That might make a difference.

Of course you can download a demo of iWork yourself and test on documents you have.

Hi, I have a similar problem with Word (.doc) files containing a Table converted to Pages. Having read that Pages can convert from Word, I bought iWork instead of Office for Mac. I need to work on Word documents sent to me as attachments and find that Tables do not survive the conversion to Pages properly. Often the text within a Table is shown but, if a lengthy text (i.e. more than a page), the Table does not continue to the next page and the text becomes hidden below the visible Table. If I cut out some text from the middle of the Table, the missing text is revealed, progressively from the bottom of the Table. In other words, the text is there in the document but cannot be seen if it is more than can be fitted on one page. Any ideas on how to sort this? I am not encouraged that iWork 09 does not appear to help in a similar problem to mine.