On Aug 4, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Dan Roy wrote: > Thanks for the info, this is really to bad! My wife does lots of charts and > that sort of stuff, sounds like shaky ground to me. > > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > >> Hello Dan, >> >> When converting files from MS Word to Pages, there are problems with the >> positioning of text boxes, the text within shapes, borders around paragraphs >> and some fonts that are not available in Pages. There are even some fonts >> that are not available in Word for Mac but are in Word for Windows. >> >> As you so rightly say, there are virtually no problems converting from Pages >> to MS Word, all the formatting is retained. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> On 30 Jul 2012, at 05:37, Dan Roy wrote: >> >>> I would love to get rid of office, I absolutely hate it. However, most of >>> the working world is using it. My wife has to use it every day. She wants >>> to work from home and is afraid of incompadabilities between office and >>> IWorks, I thought the files could be interchanged without a problem, but, >>> from reading a lot of posts on this list, I am finding out otherwise. >>> >>> Oh, stupid me, I assumed if she was using pages and saved the file as an >>> Office 2007 or whatever, that it would be ok, but, if she starts out >>> working in office, then, opens it in pages and goes to save it back to >>> office, I take it that's ware the problem lies. >>> >>> I am glad to know this, she would have killed me for recommending she do >>> that. She would then be forced to go out and buy Office for the Mac. Yes, >>> she is fully sighted. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >
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