I agree, it would be nice but show me a word processor that does this apart from MS Word? Companies would have to probably pay quite high to licence this from Microsoft. When pages 09 came out it was the only word processor on the mac that could read and write to the docx format. Not even Office for the Mac could do that at the time.
Maybe (not sure if this is already the case) but if you open a word document in pages and make changes to it and then save, it would be nice if it was saved back to the default file type which pages opened. I can see the benefits in that. Maybe there is a script out there which can help. Chris On 16 Jan 2011, at 17:30, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > Please excuse me for putting my 2 cents in but, I think the Original post is > still valid. It seems to have been lost in the war of words following > though. It seems silly to not be able to just set a default format of your > choosing. Especially since Word formats are pretty much what 90% of the > world uses. Regardless of how easy it is to export or save as a word > document, that doesn't mean you want to do it every time. After all, > technology main purpose is to make our lives easier, not make us have to > repeat time wasting tasks. On the flip side, I didn't hear the slight in > Anne's use of the word complain. But then again, Its all in the eye of the > beholder. But I think this might have just been a misunderstanding. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:06 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > >> Ah, my mawmaw said the same thing, smiles! Heather >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Moore" <moor...@blueyonder.co.uk> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 1:00 PM >> Subject: Re: :pages export annoyance >> >> >> Take a chill pill my friend, as my gran always used to say "you catch more >> flies with sugar then vinegar". Now breathe with me "out with anger, in with >> love" lol >> >> >> But seriously, exporting is easy, i have only had Pages for a couple of >> hours and it is easy. If you use OpenOffice, WordPerfect, WordPro etc etc >> their default document type is not MS Word but can import and export to that >> format. Microsoft Word hold the exclusive ability to have .doc format type >> as their default as it is their product. That is the case on both the Mac >> and Windows. >> >> am sure if you could use MS Word on the Mac then that would solve your issue. >> >> Chris >> On 15 Jan 2011, at 18:50, Yuma Decaux wrote: >> >>> Chris, >>> >>> I must have changed the subject to "issue with pages i wish to resolve". >>> And yes, i apologize for having a chip on my shoulder, but i'm also not >>> here to listen to people speak to me as if i'm the bad guy not liking apple >>> products or something, and putting in words like "complaining" which is >>> synonymous to "bitching" etc on a totally legitimate question. A question, >>> you know? >>> >>> So yea, its probably a compatibility issue and i haven't had enough coffee >>> this sunday morning, and perhaps the sky is dark, or i fell on the wrong >>> side of the bed, which incidentally will not be empty starting today, or >>> many other reasons. But this doesn't resolve the fact that i want to export >>> to certain formats by default. But people made it a case to say i'm >>> bitching over this. >>> >>> So this is a half apology. And i don't care anymore if i can't export by >>> default. 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