Why is my Microsoft Word document not working correctly with Pages

My guess to why you've lost two pages when converting a Word document to Pages is that you have used a table for your information and the table is spanning over several pages in Word. Pages doesn't work like that and can't break tables over several pages when the cell height is taller than the text layer n a page.

Word and Pages doesn't convert perfectly and never will. If you expect Pages to behave and work like Word you will get problems.

fruhulda has got it spot on.

Using Tables for layout not only doesn't translate well but is ugly.

There are plenty of excellent CV examples in Pages' templates showing how it should be done.

Peter

Pages does not allow a single cell in a table to span more than a page and there may be other problems that you also have not told us about.

Redo your CV using the excellent Pages templates, Word's templates are Uuuugly!

Being text based, with good typographical layout, those Pages templates should translate accurately back and forth from Pages to Word.

Frankly CVs don't require anything fancy. You could do an excellent, well laid out and very attractive CV in TextEdit which is no slouch in the word processing department.

Peter

PS Start off by saving your Word CV to .rtf or .txt which will strip off most of the bad formatting. Then reopen it in Pages or drag in the snippets of text into a Pages CV template's placeholders to automatically format the text nicely.

Lucky Luxy wrote:

Thanks for your help. I have just finished creating a new CV in Pages, I'm very pleased with it! Once I got used to Pages, I found it very easy and fun to use. I'm glad I took your advice!

It is so true!