Convert Pages Document to Word

Pages is not a Word clone so it is going to take poetic license when it guesses how to do the translation between .docx <=> .pages. Apple does not guarantee the accuracy of this translation, and they don't even keep Pages remotely current with the shipping Word.

Pages and Word use different layout engines, and there are features in either that are indigestible by the other, so one must be very careful when the output format is Word.

If you were using Word, you would completely avoid the document conversion nonsense introduced by Pages, and could use Grammarly directly in Word. Unlike Pages, Word opens, edits, and saves its native document content in the .docx format.

In Pages, this ↲ is a soft return; ￫ a tab, and ¶, a paragraph mark. They are invisible characters when you toggle Show Invisible off (shift+command+i).

English Rebel wrote:

odd looking spaces between letter (looks like a period with a tiny upward pointing arrow above).

Hi Alan,

In Pages with Menu > View > Show Invisibles, that is a non-breaking space (created with option space-bar).

Regards,

Ian.

I don't, but if you are open to using something other than Pages you may want to consider the free and very good Libre Office https://www.libreoffice.org/

Or the free Microsoft Office on the web: https://products.office.com/en-us/free-office-online-for-the-web

Hi Alan,

A regular space allows a word to wrap to the next line The blue triangles on the ruler are indents (or page margins).

A non-breaking space "pulls" both words to the next line if they both will not fit on the previous line.

Regards,

Ian.