Pages '09 - Save as Word (.doc) by default?

[Miss Terri]

I don't know if this might help anyone, but here is a page that discusses the deceased blog link and summarizes how to make the changes:

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-do-i-save-as-word-document.html

Notes:

1) I don't know enough to judge whether this is appropriate or helpful; I just got curious when the original link did not work.

2) I thought about pasting the content here in case it is "lost" again but was not sure if it was okay to do that.

Miss Terri

 

[KirkL]

I don't know if this might help anyone, but here is a page that discusses the deceased blog link and summarizes how to make the changes:

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-do-i-save-as-word-document.html

Notes:

1) I don't know enough to judge whether this is appropriate or helpful; I just got curious when the original link did not work.

2) I thought about pasting the content here in case it is "lost" again but was not sure if it was okay to do that.

Miss Terri

Awesome! Thanks

It would be cooler if it worked for .docx too, but I don't think it does.

 

[roadbloc]

This has nothing whatsoever to do with what Apple "would allow to happen." The .doc format is proprietary and owned by Microsoft.

I guess that's why OpenOffice.org lets you save as .doc by default.

It's nothing to do with M$. It's Apple being Apple and making it as inconvenient as possible to save as .doc

To be honest, if you want to save as .doc by default, that means you want all of your files in Office format. Why not just buy Office? It saves as .doc and .docx brilliantly.

 

[bedouin]

@KirkL

It does work with .docx files as long as you changed the parameters for Items 8 and 9 (Microsoft Word Document and Microsoft Word 97-2004) respectively.

I've changed my workflow with Pages recently. I save my documents as .pages files until I'm completely satisfied, then use the share feature to just create a new E-Mail with a Word file attached. No need to clutter up my Documents folder with duplicate Word/Pages files and I can always work with a native format. The only problem is you can't export and attach multiple documents at one time into one single E-Mail. For some this is probably the obvious way to handle things, but . . . yeah.

If you're sent .doc / .docx files to edit and send back though, this hint is still the easiest way to handle things.

@roadbloc

Every Office GUI after Word 2004 is repulsive to me. Aside from that, I am completely Microsoft free now that Office is gone. Pages is a lot less bloated than MS Word or OpenOffice Writer. I'm also disgusted at how lame the MacBU is and refuse to send any of my money their way. Those are good enough reasons for me not to use MS Word, even if my employer wants .doc files from me daily.

The prudent thing for Apple to do would be to create a Pages translator for Word and OO so that this would slowly become irrelevant. Or -- how about everyone uses an open format and stops shafting users just to have their own cute little file extension.

 

[KirkL]

@KirkL

It does work with .docx files as long as you changed the parameters for Items 8 and 9 (Microsoft Word Document and Microsoft Word 97-2004) respectively.

I've changed my workflow with Pages recently. I save my documents as .pages files until I'm completely satisfied, then use the share feature to just create a new E-Mail with a Word file attached. No need to clutter up my Documents folder with duplicate Word/Pages files and I can always work with a native format. The only problem is you can't export and attach multiple documents at one time into one single E-Mail. For some this is probably the obvious way to handle things, but . . . yeah.

If you're sent .doc / .docx files to edit and send back though, this hint is still the easiest way to handle things.

@roadbloc

Every Office GUI after Word 2004 is repulsive to me. Aside from that, I am completely Microsoft free now that Office is gone. Pages is a lot less bloated than MS Word or OpenOffice Writer. I'm also disgusted at how lame the MacBU is and refuse to send any of my money their way. Those are good enough reasons for me not to use MS Word, even if my employer wants .doc files from me daily.

The prudent thing for Apple to do would be to create a Pages translator for Word and OO so that this would slowly become irrelevant. Or -- how about everyone uses an open format and stops shafting users just to have their own cute little file extension.

That's odd. I changed it, and tried to edit a .docx file and I got "The document “[Document name]” could not be saved. "

 

[bedouin]

You're probably right now that I think about it. I never actually tried to save a .docx file after opening it in Pages.

 

[chrono1081]

I guess that's why OpenOffice.org lets you save as .doc by default.

It's nothing to do with M$. It's Apple being Apple and making it as inconvenient as possible to save as .doc

To be honest, if you want to save as .doc by default, that means you want all of your files in Office format. Why not just buy Office? It saves as .doc and .docx brilliantly.

.doc is a proprietary format owned by MS though. Also there is not anything with Apple making you change an option to save as .doc, that would be like me being mad at Maya for not letting me automatically save my project as a blender file. (And yes, I know you can set it like that but its the idea). Or better yet, being mad at MS for not letting me default save a pages file.

 

[PKGuy323]

I was able to do this after alot of fumbling around. Not only was I able to get Pages to work with .docs natively, but did the same thing with Numbers. Now if I want a .pages or .numbers file, I have to natively create them. By default, .doc and .xls files open up as such in iWork 09. No exporting or re-saving them, blah, blah, blah.

One hitch is opening them this way prevents them from being exported to an iWork '09 format. Guess I'd have to export it in the iWork '08 format and open it to make it iWork '09 format.

Great find, y'all!

 

[izzy0242mr]

Info.plist file

Same...can someone who edited theirs post their plist here so those of us who aren't as savvy can just copy/paste it

Here you go. This is from Pages '09.

 

[sebastiannz]

I have a problem that hopefully the experts in this thread can answer. I too use Pages at home but Office at work (actually I use Pages at work too on my macbook). Anyway, what tends to happen is when I create a new document I create it in pages and work on it for a while. Then when I'm finished, I'll export it to doc format and save it on iDisk so I can use it on my work computer. The problem is, when I go back to editing it on my macbook for some reason when I open the doc file, it opens it as a pages file. So then I have to again export it as doc!

What I want to do is
1. Create and edit the document in Pages
2. Export it to doc format and keep working on it on my work computer
3. Go back to macbook, open the doc file and then save it, without any further exporting or 'save as' required.

is this possible?

 

[sebastiannz]

Ignore the above. The fix suggested seems to have fixed things. A bit annoying that I had to fiddle around with an esoteric file (I thought I left this kind of tweaking behind when I went all Apple), but oh well. At least it's working

Here's hoping the next version of Pages (which is great btw) makes it totally seamless to work with doc files.

 

[Jeepin4fun88]

No Info.plist

I have been wanting to do this for a long time now and am just getting to it now. I was looking in the Resources folder for the Info.plist file but I can not find it. Anyone else have this problem or does anyone know what I am doing wrong?