Speeding Up Pages Exports

[JadeBuddha]

While I'm eager to complete my switch over to iWork from Office, I still have several documents I've been working on that are *.doc files. Is there anyway to speed up or automate Pages' export process so that saving *.doc files is as easy as saving *.pages files?

 

[IJ Reilly]

Are you trying to open existing Word document files automatically in Pages, or export them from Pages to Word documents?

 

[JadeBuddha]

I'm trying to export them, and I'd like the process to be faster (one click or auto-exported if possible).

 

[IJ Reilly]

Possibly an AppleScript could be created to do this, but that's not my forté, and I wonder how many clicks you'd save since exporting is really only two or three.

 

[Mal]

What I did was simply mapped Export to -E, and if Word format is the last chosen, then you simply hit Enter to select it again. You can do that mapping in System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts. Just make sure you type the command in exactly as it appears in the menu (don't recall if it's "Export" or "Export...").

jW

 

[IJ Reilly]

What I did was simply mapped Export to -E, and if Word format is the last chosen, then you simply hit Enter to select it again. You can do that mapping in System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts. Just make sure you type the command in exactly as it appears in the menu (don't recall if it's "Export" or "Export...").

jW

Excellent solution. Very nice. 🙂