Is there a way to just press ⌘ + S and have Pages save as .doc?

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Is there a way to just press ⌘ + S and have Pages save as .doc?

For all of my college document, they have to be saved as a .doc so that they work with the college computers.

Once I create a document in Pages, I save it and tick the box that says 'Save a copy as: Word Document' but then even after it has saved, the red dot to close the windows has the black dot in the centre to say it hasn't been saved.

Is there a way to stop this happening and once I have saved a document as a .doc once, can it be set to do it for the whole thing?

I hope this makes sense,

Sam

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, 2.9GHz, 16GB RAM, 1TB HD

Posted on Sep 23, 2013 4:45 AM

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Answer 1

fruhulda

Level 6

15,161 points

Sep 23, 2013 7:43 AM in response to MaverickFlyboy

No, you can't use Cmd + S for exporting a Pages document as a Word document. It is good that you save the Pages document in its native format first. If you tick a box after you have saved the document Pages thinks you have made a change and that is why you have the black dot again.

You should be able to assign a hot key to Export > Word. Mind that you don't use any hot key already in use. May I suggest you use somthing like Option + Control + s. The Control key isn't used much for hot keys on a Mac.

To do this follow the instructions here http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3957

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Answer 2

Barry

Level 9

59,867 points

Sep 23, 2013 12:13 PM in response to MaverickFlyboy

Hi Sam,

If your important documents must be submitted in .doc or .docx format, and are being viewed and read by instructors assigning marks based on what they read (and on how it is presented), you might serously consider paying the price for the education version of MS Office (Mac).

Exporting of files requires the software to translate formatting between formats, and that translation is never perfect, For straightforward, text-only documents, you'll probably be OK. For anything more complicated than that, you'll start running into problems.

Regards,

Barry

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