EXPORTING TO WORD

I HAVE A 300 PAGE DOCUMENT, IN PAGES. WHEN I TRY TO CONVERT TO WORD, I GET A MESSAGE SAYING THAT IT CAN'T BE OPENED BECAUSE THE FILE MAY BE CORRUPT. I THINK THIS MIGHT BE BECAUSE THERE ARE DANGLING IMAGES THAT I IMPORTED SEVERAL TIMES BECAUSE I THOUGHT THEY HAD DISAPPEARED. THE WORD FILE SHOWS ONE OF THEM ON THE FIRST PAGE, WHERE IT SHOULDN'T BE, AND WHEN I CONVERTED THE DOCUMENT TO RTF, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF THEM AT THE END OF THE DOCUMENT. THE WORD MESSAGE SAYS TO OPEN WITH TEXT CONVERTOR, BUT I CANNOT FIND IT. ANY SUGGESTIONS? THANK YOU.

PAGES-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on May 2, 2012 1:18 AM

Mar 3, 2013 8:00 AM in response to diannefromnew york

This problem appears to have been resolved; however, a few other solutions have occurred to me that may help other people in a similar situation.

Creating a 300 page document (let's say 75,000 words), with imbedded photos, may not be the best use for a word processor, like Word. I would suggest using a more robust software, like MS Publisher (not sure if available on Mac) or Scrivener (which is what I use for large word-count documents).

Finally, it may have worked, since "diannefromnewyork" says that she knows there were multiple image files that could have been deleted, would have been to open in a text editor app, like Text Wrangler, where the image files could've been removed fairly easily. However, this solution assumes that you have at least a minimal working knowledge of HTML.

Hope this helps others.