Re: The best way of saving and editing documents with the new pages on the mac

2014-07-01 Thread David Chittenden
Currently, you cannot do what you are attempting. Pages is designed to work in pages format. When one is completely finished with the document, one then exports it to word format should one desire to do so. This is all part of the competition between Apple and Microsoft for the office spaces of

Re: The best way of saving and editing documents with the new pages on the mac

2014-07-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Daniel, What you need to understand is that Pages is an Apple proprietory format and it is just a concession to the fact that many people need to share files with MS Office users that we can save in Word format. So, no, you can never set Pages to save automatically in Word format and it

Re: The best way of saving and editing documents with the new pages on the mac

2014-07-01 Thread Daniel McGee
Hello David and Anne, thank you both for explaining to me how Pages works when dealing with word documents. I pretty much thought this would be the case when Tim told me too. However, I'm glad I posted again to get more than one opinion. I'd just like to ask another question which I'm sure I

Re: The best way of saving and editing documents with the new pages on the mac

2014-07-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Daniel, For your first question, I have two responses. If you are two people using Pages in the first place, why bother putting the document into Word prior to the final product. I suggest you leave it in Pages. Now, my second answer to the first question is not exactly. Since Pages

Re: The best way of saving and editing documents with the new pages on the mac

2014-07-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Daniel, Just another opinion. Far less mac connected, but very much document sharing connected. Because ms office tends to hold a grudge with some of its other editions, not so much as sitting at the same table with them, I often suggest two things. First, if you can, ask the source what

The best way of saving and editing documents with the new pages on the mac

2014-06-30 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, I only got one answer to this question below from this list. Unless its just simply no one uses the app or I made an error in trying to get across what I want to achieve, I have made an attempt at rephrasing my question in the hope its more clear and will generate more responses. If

Re: The best way of saving and editing documents with the new pages on the mac

2014-06-30 Thread isaac
If you want to save it as a word document you will have to go to the file menu. Next go to export submenu. Next choose word. After that you should be able to press command s to save it. isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com Skype gold_wildcat On Jun 30, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Daniel McGee

Re: The best way of saving and editing documents with the new pages on the mac

2014-06-30 Thread Daniel McGee
Hello isaac, yeah I do all that, what you have detailed but when I next come to open the newly saved document, make some edits and then hit CMD S to save. It will pop up a dialog box forcing me to save it in a dot pages format. I just don't get why Pages won't continue saving the file into word