Batch convert .odt (OpenOffice) to Pages

Recommendation:

1. Install LibreOffice (fresh) on macOS Sierra. By default, it supports the Open Document (ISO 32600) ODT standard used by OpenOffice, and NeoOffice. Apache has expressed internal doubt that they can continue to support OpenOffice.
2. On the Mac, only the included TextEdit supports the .ODT word processing document format. There is no available .ODT to Pages document conversion solution on the Mac. One might write an AppleScript batch converter using TextEdit to open .ODT and save as Word DOCX, but the converted format retention and quality is unknown.
3. The quality (and size) of the saved Word document from LibreOffice, and its compatibility with Word in MS Office is better than any Word document translated on export from Pages. The quality, size, and PDF standards conformance is better in LibreOffice, than is supported in Pages.

teddy9264 wrote:

Sorry, I want to leave Open office because I simply don't like it. If you have any other ideas that would be appreciated

What do you write and for whom? Do all the people who judge your work use Word?

NeoOffice is not free (for a functional application), but does present a more aesthetic, Apple-like (Cocoa) user interface not found in OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Like its cousins, it does use Java for certain database, and other specialized operations. You can continue to use .ODT word processing documents without the prospect of document changes through format conversion, and save to Word DOCX as needed.

You don't want to convert anything to .pages format, which nobody but Mac users can read. Just download OpenOffice or LibraOffice for Mac and keep doing things the way you always have with .odt.

Word. or LibreOffice.

Pages is a dead end in a bad neighborhood.

Pages uses a file format that no other uses. Is that where you want to be stuck?