Export to MS Word

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Export to MS Word

I am using Pages 5.5.3. on a 2012 iMac running Yosemite. I have a one-page document that has eight pictures on it with five text boxes with one line of text in each of them. When I export the document to Word, either .doc or .docx, the pictures end up slightly larger and moved from what I see in the document, and the text has been moved around.

I've looked in the Help section and searched the internet trying to find the problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 30, 2015 10:12 AM

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Answer 1

May 30, 2015 10:26 AM in response to dlt4

Pages is not a Word clone and they lay out text differently.

Never the less it sounds like you could get a more accurate conversion if you use common fonts, and have your photos inline with captions in the main text.

Peter

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dlt4 Author

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May 30, 2015 10:30 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

The text I am using is Helvetica. Should I try another font?

Could you explain what you mean when you say have my "photos inline with captions in the main text"?

Thanks.

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Rysz

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May 30, 2015 10:35 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Ensuring page margins, line spacing, etc, are set identical in both apps may also reduce the differences.

One easy way of creating multi-platform documents is to save them as PDFs. Would that work in your case?

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dlt4 Author

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May 30, 2015 4:40 PM in response to Rysz

The PDF suggestion was a good one. The person I sent the document to just imported it into Word and everything was good.

Obviously the interaction between Pages and Word isn't quite as great as Apple would have us believe.

Thanks for the help.

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Answer 5

Sep 24, 2016 8:39 AM in response to dlt4

Fonts yes can be a problem.

Try Arial as i'm sure microsoft (linux, imac) have that.

Helvetica is owned by Adobe and may not be equally well supported on platforms that did not license Adobe fonts or did not set them up properly.

Substitution fonts should be possible but realistically it never gets done right; perhaps even arial will not "be the same". There are too many flavors (versions, encoders, decoders) and the support to make up for uneven spacings left is simply is short of perfect between different vendors. It's business as usual in the IT world: make a terrible mess of things and run away.

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