I don't mind iWork, but one thing that bugs me is having to specify all the time that i'd like to save the document as the microsoft version (ppt, doc, excel etc) instead of the apple formats. It also isn't that fun to then have to navigate to where the original file is and overwrite it. Any way to just have the apps default save your documents (whether new or old) as microsoft versions?
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way to force iWork apps to save docs as Microsoft versions?
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What you could do is work in Pages, save files in Pages, then have AppleScript automatically save your files in Word format.
A script like this:
To be extra slick, you could use this as the basis of a folder action. Let's say you save your files in a folder called "Pages Files." You could modify this script so that it saves files into a folder called "Word Files."
No work on your part.
mt
A script like this:
Code:
tell application "Pages"
set fileName to name of document 1
set filePath to path of document 1
set TID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set justPath to (text items 1 thru -2 of filePath) as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID
set newFileName to justPath & "/" & fileName & ".doc"
save document 1 as "Microsoft Word 97 - 2004 document" in newFileName
end tellTo be extra slick, you could use this as the basis of a folder action. Let's say you save your files in a folder called "Pages Files." You could modify this script so that it saves files into a folder called "Word Files."
No work on your part.
mt