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How To Save iWorks Files As .doc Format
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28 Feb 2010I have switched from Microsoft Office on my Mac OS X system to Apple’s iWorks package, which works great except every so often someone complains that my files are in .pages format, not .doc, which is what they want to see. I can’t see how to save a file in Pages as an MS Word doc file, but I know it can be done. Help?
Dave’s Answer:
I also migrated on my Mac from MS Office to iWorks and haven’t looked back in the eight months or so since. Certainly Keynote is a huge improvement over PowerPoint, and my Keynote presentations look so much better I am kind of embarrassed it took me so long to switch, but Pages is a splendid replacement for Word too, and so far, for me, offers 100% of the functionality and capability I need.
Even better, as I bet you’ve found out, you can open .doc files created by Microsoft Word in Pages without a problem. Saving Pages docs in Word format, however, isn’t quite as obvious as you may imagine, because it’s not a “Save As” it’s an “Export”.
Let me show you…
Open up your Pages document, then choose “Export…” from the File menu:
Chose that and you’ll see that there are a bunch of formats you can create:
The default is a PDF document. Easy, straightforward. Click on “Word” and you’ll see:
No options, just click on “Next…” and you’ll be able to type in the doc name you desire:
Enter a good name, add “.doc” if you think it’ll make it easier for the recipients, and click “Export”.
That’s it. Done. Now you have a “.doc” file on your computer that’s a Microsoft Word friendly version of your document. Not too bad!
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8 Responses to How To Save iWorks Files As .doc Format
joe
March 5th, 2010 at 1:56 am
First of all to do system link you will need the same game for each console, so one game disc won't do it for you. Secondly, the point of system link is to use two t.v.'s but if you want to do it on the same t.v. that's fine. You just need to make sure that the tv has inputs for each xbox, and that the tv has a way to do PIP (picture in picture) or splitscreen. I'm not sure of Saints row 2 specs, like if you can play 2 people on the same console or not, but if you can why not just bring your controller and play on the same xbox?
SilverTonguedDevil
March 5th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
The names are "Install Mac OS X" and "Install Mac OS 9.x.x" (1st x= some digit <3, 2nd X depends on the first X). It doesn't have or need any extension. UNIX executable files have a bit activated in the code to make it executable, not an extension.
By the way, any file with an extension ".pkg" is a type of container, not an actual executable file. If you double-click a package, it will typically call upon an application called Installer.app that has an executable file located inside it called "Installer" that reads the contents of the package and copies the appropriate content files to designated locations.
Thiago Cardoso
March 9th, 2010 at 3:49 am
When you scan a document, it becomes an image file. Unless you have word recognition software, you cant.
jc
March 9th, 2010 at 11:00 am
xxxx.pkg (instaler)
TV TECH-man®
March 19th, 2010 at 1:52 am
To do that EASILY….I'd get the TV tuner card to do the audio aspect of your cable box…but I doubt you got that extra feature on your Dell…My friend has your model and he just plugs in the cable box, sets it to channel 3 and wails away….
Steve A
March 24th, 2010 at 4:29 am
No it isn't
Maxood
March 25th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
You have to add an ActiveX Control named Common Dailog Control in your control box. You can use its Filter Property to use different file types like .doc,.pdx,etc.
The Common Dialog Control provides a standard interface for operations such as opening, saving, and printing files or selecting colours and fonts using the Microsoft Windows dynamic link library COMMDLG.DLL. The Control is visible on the form as an icon at design-time but not at run-time. The icon cannot be resized on the form and it's not possible to specify where the Dialog will be displayed when opened.
To use a Common Dialog Control, add "Microsoft Common Dialog Control" from the "Project", "Components" menu item. The three-letter mnemonic for a Common Dialog Control is "cdl". The Control's Methods are used to determine which dialog is displayed.
EXAMPLE:
The Filter Property is used to determine the types of file to be shown. A Pipe symbol, |, is used to separate the description and value.
cdlOpen.Filter = "Text (*.txt)|*.txt"
s_dbarrow
May 4th, 2010 at 6:07 am
You have to get another program to do it for you. If you google it, you'll find a lot of companies telling you to buy programs like adobe acrobat, which are all really expensive.
A few years ago a professor told me about cutepdf. It installs like a printer on your computer, but it's a free program. When you set it up (the directions are on the site), you can click 'Print' in microsoft word and then chose cutepdf as your printer.
You only need the free version unless you're a large business and even then, it might not be necessary. Feel free to contact me if you need help.
Link: http://www.cutepdf.com/