Document Warnings

Thanks for the link. I go back and forth regularly from my mac to my pc, and the document warnings are totally annoying.

The warnings are useful, letting you know what is untranslateable or missing from the imported document.

Many users actually complain about problems which were no doubt detailed in the warning but they chose to ignore them.

As I rarely get them I would think any options to not have them show up would be with the warning panel, I don't know of any options elsewhere,

Peter

Hi radionewbie,

Here is an alert that tells me what has not successfully imported from an Excel spreadsheet into Numbers. You can turn off alerts by unchecking Open this window when problems occur:

I prefer to allow alerts. Then I know what I have to fix. Dismissing an alert is easy, just click on the red close button.

Regards,

Ian.

This isn't the same document warning I get in Pages, when I open a document created/modified on my pc. The option to turn it off like you can there, is exactly what I'd like.

Could you take a screen shot and post and show us what you get?

Great idea, I'll try. I'm new to this...and I'm OLD so please don't get frustrated with me if I mess up, lol!

Nope. I "captured" it, saved it to my desktop and tried to "choose" it, but it said this type of file wasn't allowed. That's the only way I could think of to try doing it. Sorry!

The warning is just a dropdown at the top of the document that says "some warnings occurred, would you like to review them now?" then in smaller print it says "you can review warnings at any time by choosing View > Show Document Warnings." My only options are "don't review" or "review". Can't find anything helpful under Pages Preferences, either, so I don't think it's possible.

Thanks for trying 🙂

You can change the format of the screen shot in Preview.

Which MacOs system do you have and which Pages version?

OS 10.8.3, Pages '09 4.3 (1048)

I suspect that the box is already unchecked on your system. You can check by choosing to "review them now," or, with a document open, by "choosing View > Show Document Warnings." Either of these should bring up the Document Warnings window where the checkbox is located.

Unfortunately, I suspect that leaving the checkbox unchecked simply causes Pages to display the alert that you are seeing if the document warnings are sufficiently serious that Pages thinks they warrant your attention. I haven't found a .doc file on my harddrive that causes it to display, though, so that's just speculation.

Yes, as you suspected, that box is unchecked on the form that comes up under "review them now". I tried checking it, saving, then re-opening; then unchecking, saving, and re-opening, but the alert still comes up. It's always the same alert - a missing font. Maybe I can locate where that font is sneaking in on the pc and attack it from there. Thank you 🙂

If you can locate the PC font, copy it over to the Mac and install it by double clicking on it.

OSX will happily accept most PC fonts.

You can also choose to substitute the font in the warning, but this will cause your document to reflow as the fonts are rarely a matching size/width.

Peter

Omigosh, I didn't know I could do that! Thank you!

I don't know why it thinks the calibri font is there at all - I don't use it, it doesn't appear in the document, I always choose "don't review" and that's the end of it. It's just a nuisance because it happens over, and over, and....

I don't care "why", I'll just do what you said and that should solve the problem. Even if it doesn't, your font tip is a great one. Thanks again.

The font may be burried in something as simple as return or tab, or a floating object, not necessarily visible.

I do wish Apple would update Pages, being able to find and replace objects and fonts would be a major improvement.

Peter

lol it sure is deeply buried. I just now created a new document on my pc - one sentence on line 1, with no returns or tabs. Brought it to my mac and got the same warning - calibri font missing. I'll try installing calibri here, as you suggested. If I can't manage that, I'll just live with it - maybe next time they come up with a new OS....

What I wish Apple had NOT "updated" is the iphoto/Time Machine action - I liked the previous version much better, where I could "go back in time" in iphoto just as in all the other applications. Now, a single photo can't be viewed or restored - restore a whole library or nothing. I thought that was an awful step in the wrong direction when I discovered it, but I suppose there's likely some technical reason which would be way over my head.

Nothing's perfect! 🙂

Wasn't aware of that.

Given some of the silly blunders of design and implementation lately, I wouldn't bank on it being a crucial "technical reason", often now it is just an easy way out of technical problems to just scotch functionality.

Peter