Hi Jim,
"As far as I know, you can not open a Word document from Pages. They are not compatible."
Is that a "dispraging comment"? It does seem to (falsely) disparage the capabilities of Pages. Having just done so, I do know that you can open a Word document using Pages. Admitedly, the document I opened was a pretty simple one—text only, some bolded, some with background colour (hilighted), and some bulleted lists.
This was a .docx document, but Pages will open .doc files as well.
Pages offered a 'missing font' warning, and substituted Lucida Grand for Calibri. That was expected, as Calibri is Microsoft's current default fot for Word, and I do not have that font installed.
Are the two applications (fully) compatible? No. There are Word features that are not supported in Pages, and there are Pages features that are not supported in MS Word.
Using Pages, participated with others, using MS Word (on PCs), in a revision and editing of bylaws for a society, during which the document underwent revision and commenting on both platforms, and produced the 'final' documant listing the original and revised version in two side-by-side columns for the meeting at which the membership voted to approve the bylaw amendments.
But if you're working with more complex documents than I was, and you're sharing the editing with people using Word, you're better off to use the same application as they are.
Regarding Peter's semingly contradictory responses:
These two responses are to different questions. Yours included the instruction to "Go to Format Heading and choose, "Make Plain Text"."
Peters response was that this excursion into Text Edit and change to plain text was an unnecessary 'run around', which could be accomplished more efficiently using Paste and match style directly into a Pages document.
He also noted that your recommendation to use Text boxes is an unnecessary step, if you are using a Pages word processing document. That's true. Pasted into a word processing document, the 'ton of text' will cause Pages to create as many new pages as needed to accomodate that text. Both Peter and Fruhulda were surprised that you chose to use page layout document as the receiver for the 'ton of text' you were pasting from a Word document. Considering that Word is primarily a word processing application (and that for 'a ton of text', a word processing application is more appropriate than one designed to produce single separate laid out pages, sowas I.
The earlier question/statement from Andre contained this: "even if I choose: "paste exaclty the same" (something like that in paste options) it loses the configuration, putting the text out of the tablets, for example...", and this is the part to which Peter's response recommending NOT using Paste and Match Style applied.
Note that Andre wanted to maintain the styled text used in the source material (where your described process deliberately removes that style by setting it to "plain text" in Text Edit). Using Paste and Match Style ignores any style set in the original, and matches the style set at the location of the insertion point on the (Pages) document into which the text is being pasted.
Different questions, different answers.
Regards,
Barry
