Text Edit is great for basic stuff, but the word format it supports is really only rich text format. This is fine for being able to read the contents of a word document but most formatting will be lost. On 17 Jan 2011, at 08:13, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Hello Carolyn, > > While it's true that TextEdit saves documents in their original format, it > isn't a fully-fledged word processor and you can lose important formatting. > > Headers, for instance, get grouped together at the end of the document, and > any styles not supported by TextEdit are lost. > > This is why I can't use TextEdit in my work as a translator. Pages does a > very good job of preserving styles and allows me to create quality documents > that I export to MS Word format and which meet my customers' requirements. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 17 Jan 2011, at 05:49, Carolyn Haas wrote: > >> Hi Chris and others: >> I'm curious now. I just opened a Word attachment. I then saved it in >> documents, where it stayed a "dot doc" file. I went into documents and >> opened it with text edit, made some changes, and then saved it again as a " >> word file. So, I'm not clear what's the issue here? >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
