elbiliscibus wrote:
Thanks for the answers and sorry for the imprecision.
So what happens when I open the dot, I get the following warnings:
- Text frames aren't supported and were converted to text boxes.
Can't see what happened as a result but in principle that shouldn't effect the text.
- An unsupported field wasn't imported
Can't tell what that might have been, but Word has things like optional/auto-inserted text or forms entry which Pages does not.
- Paragraph borders behave differently in pages. All borders except complete outside borders were removed
Pages has less options for where the borders can fall but better options for fancy frames etc.
So some of the layout is fine (fonts are ok and text is still 2 columns) but fields for authors and title are missing, header on first page is gone but not on the following pages and page numbers now shows two page 1.
I have also tried converting to a doc and get the same result.
Hope this is better explained this time 🙂
Otherwise, I've had a quick look with open office and it seems to be working fine so I might have to use it though I'd be a lot happier if I could stick with pages!
Someone here said the problem with OpenOffice, which I was going to suggest next, is that it is both not Word
and too much like Word.
Peter
