I download my school notes from their website but all of the notes are either in word or powerpoint format. How do I configure my computer to automatically convert these to pages and keynote so they open in those programs (if this is possible)? I use Google Chrome as my browser if that helps any.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Highlight a known Word document in the Finder, highlight it & choose Get Info from the File menu. In the Get Info box, click the triangle next to "Open With." Click on this drop-down menu & choose Pages. If Pages is not a choice, choose "Other" & navigate to the Pages application. Now click the "Change" button under the text that asks if you want to open all documents like this with Pages. You can then double-click the Word documents & they will open in Pages. Note that the icon for the Word files will have a plain, white icon. Repeat with a PowerPoint document & change to Keynote.
Not only MS Office for mac can do this, LibreOffice, OpenOffice and, notably, Nisus can retain track changes in Word after importing them into the named formats. I do not think Pages can do that. As a rule of thumb, importing and/or exporting documents always loses something, it cannot be an identical document to the original.
Pages can open Word documents with tracking changes, or export tracking changes done in Pages, back to Word, where subsequently opening that .docx in LibreOffice shows those tracking changes. The melange of word processing applications, and document translations raises a question mark about fidelity to the original Word document change tracking.
Converting word docs to pages automatically
