Word to Pages Conversion Page Sizing Off

JAM,

What's on the second page when you open in Pages?

Jerry

In the View menu select Show invisibles

Check on the second page if there isn't one or two paragraph breaks after the last word.

Delete those paragraph breaks and you have probably reduced the page number to one.

and check the character type too:

"A common problem is text spilling over from the end of a page onto another page. This can happen when your Mac doesn’t have the font used in the original document, when Pages will substitute another font that is a slightly larger physical size.", MacWorld

"To fix the issue, redefine the line spacing in both Word and Pages as pixels rather than lines. A setting of 16 pixels is usually equal to 1 line in most fonts. Pixel settings in Word and Pages are the same size, so the imported document will look more like the original.", MacWorld

Would you mind sending me the MS Word document? Click on my name and you'll see my address. I just want to see what causing the problem (if I can)

JAM1198 wrote:

Its the last paragraph. Its like 1 sentence with 3 bullet points.

That's a lot of content. You surely should be able to identify some areas of the document that are taking up more space in one case vs. the other. If it was just one line, I'd chalk it up to subtle differences in rendering.

You should be able to hold two prints up to the light and see if it's a slow progressing of offset due to line spacing and if the effect is evenly distributed throughout the document or not. You should be able to tell if the same number of characters are fitting on a line or not, which would point to kerning differences.

Jerry

Erratic Spacing When Converting I Pad's Times New Roman to Word's Times New Roman

When I transfer a document formatted in Times New Roman font from my I pad's Pages to MS Word on my PC, the Word document appears in Times New Roman, but the line spacing is erratic and not uniform - even within the same paragraph ! These same line spacing problems do not occur when transferring Times New Roman Word documents to Ipad's Pages. (I send them by email.)

The erratic line spacing on the transferred MS Word document can be cleaned up in Word by selecting ALL and then choosing an Arial font. Once converted to Arial, if the Times New Roman font is chosen again, the spacing remains uniform and the document looks like the original.

I haven't tried this with other fonts, but I suspect that the line spacing problem is caused by the way that Apple converts its version of Times New Roman to Word's version of Times New Roman.

It is interesting that if I email a Times New Roman formatted document from Pages to my PC as a pdf file, the spacing looks normal while it is on the I pad but is erratic when viewed on the PC as a pdf file.

Look in:

Inspector > Text > More > check the keep together rules

Peter