EXPORTING TO WORD

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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

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Answer 1

May 2, 2012 1:30 AM in response to diannefromnew york

Please don't type with the caps lock down. It is the equivalent of shouting.

Did you get any warning when exporting to Word .doc from within Pages?

The message in Word (for Mac or PC) does it say "Text Convertor", "TextConvertor", "Text Converter" or TextConverter"?

I can only find these:

http://www.simx.com/simx/Products.stp?prm=tc

http://www.sttmedia.com/textconverter

Can you give us the exact message please.

Peter

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Answer 2

May 2, 2012 2:05 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Dear Peter,

Sorry about the caps, I'm new to these discussions.

The exact message from Word is: Word was noble to read this document. It may be corrupt. Try one or more of the following: *Open and Repair the file. *Open the file wilt the Text Recovery converter.

Thank you. Dianne

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Answer 3

May 2, 2012 2:40 AM in response to diannefromnew york

So was the document .pages or .doc?

Was Word on Mac or PC, if so what version?

Has Pages been able to open the converted version?

Have you searched for "Text Recovery Converter" on your computer? Whatever that is, you haven't said.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290946

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156573

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180871

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212274

Peter

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Answer 4

May 2, 2012 2:47 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

The origninal document is a .pages. I am using a MacBook Pro, OS 10.7.3, Word version 14.2.1

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Answer 5

May 2, 2012 3:07 AM in response to diannefromnew york

The question is what is the document that you are trying to open with Word?

What file extension does it have?

Peter

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Answer 6

May 2, 2012 3:20 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

I guess I'm not making myself clear. I have a Pages document that I would like to convert to Word on my MacBook pro. When I export the Pages document, it appears on my desktop as a .doc. But when I try to open it I get the message "Word was unable to open this document" etc. I can see the title page in the desktop icon and there are two images that don't belong there. What I would like to do is to be able to see them in my Pages document so I can delete them, because I think that is the problem. I can't see them in 'show invisibles'

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Answer 7

May 2, 2012 4:22 AM in response to diannefromnew york

Show Invisibles is for text formatting such as spaces, returns, tabs, section/page/column breaks etc.

To see objects which are hidden, covered or have no color use Show Layout.

You may have jumbled your layout using a mix of spaces, returns etc plus floating objects with Text Wrap which can push text out of place.

Peter

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Answer 8

May 2, 2012 5:17 AM in response to diannefromnew york

I will try that.

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Answer 9

May 2, 2012 5:20 AM in response to diannefromnew york

I can't see anything in hide layout. I am able to creat a PdF. I guess I can copy and paste, but I will have to redo all the formatting for 300 pages of text and illustrations.

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Answer 10

May 2, 2012 6:11 AM in response to diannefromnew york

It isn't Hide Layout it sould be Show Layout so you can see where everything is.

You should have used styles. It isn't too late to create and apply the styles, but surely you have the Pages version, so what is it that you have to recreate?

If you needed the ultimate document to be a .doc file, creating it in Pages was not a good idea.

Pages is not Word.

Peter

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Answer 11

May 2, 2012 6:42 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Word kept making my manuscript disappear and I would have to go to Time Machine or recovered files to get it back. That's why I tried Pages, which, for that aspect, has been reliable. When this goes to the editor, I think it will have to be in Word, so I will have to go back and do everything by hand. Apple swears it is a cinch to create Word documents from Pages..... This is the first time I have tried Pages. Is Styles part of Word?

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Answer 12

May 2, 2012 10:39 AM in response to diannefromnew york

Most modern Word Processors use styles.

Peter

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Answer 13

May 3, 2012 6:19 AM in response to diannefromnew york

When this goes to the editor, I think it will have to be in Word, so I will have to go back and do everything by hand.

Before you do that:

create a copy of your Pages document
remove all images from the copy
Export the copy from a Pages format to a Word format
Test if the Word version now opens OK in Word.
If so, add the images back to the Word version and send to your editor.

Cheers.

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Answer 14

May 4, 2012 1:51 AM in response to Dale Gillard

This is how I solved the problem. I made a duplicate and copied the entire document, including the images. I then pasted this into a blank Word document. This worked for a while but, during autorecovery, Word couldn't save the manuscript. Then I decided to break it up into three parts, which I did in a Pages duplicate. The original was 300 MB, which may be more than Word can handle, Idon't know. I pasted the three parts into three separate word documents. This seems to be working.

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Answer 15

May 4, 2012 1:53 AM in response to diannefromnew york

When I copied the manuscript I included the images, and everything transferred perfectly to Word, including the formatting.

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