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Morod

Morod

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Hello,
I just got my new iMac and had lots of Word documents transferred to it from my PC. I want to get MS off the iMac ASAP! Do I have to copy/paste all my Word documents into Pages documents? Any workarounds? I'm afraid that once my 30 day trial of Word is over I won't be able to open, print or edit any of these documents. Any ideas/suggestions/knowledge is much appreciated!
Morod
 
Morod said:
Hello,
I just got my new iMac and had lots of Word documents transferred to it from my PC. I want to get MS off the iMac ASAP! Do I have to copy/paste all my Word documents into Pages documents? Any workarounds? I'm afraid that once my 30 day trial of Word is over I won't be able to open, print or edit any of these documents. Any ideas/suggestions/knowledge is much appreciated!
Morod
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Rest easy. TextEdit will be able to open .rtf files, so that may be one way to go if you don't want to buy iWork. Any reason you're not planning on buying iWork, btw?
 
Pages will open .doc files. It will just want to save them as .pages files when you're done with them.
 
Pages opens MS Office files without problems. Another good alternative is NeoOffice (freeware). You can quite safely ditch MS Office right now.
 
Sky Blue said:
Yes, it will, Have you tried opening a .doc in Pages?:rolleyes:
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No, sorry I haven't tried that, nor do I know how to do that. When I open a .doc file, the Word trial copy opens it. So how do I open a Word document in Pages? And thanks to all for the help. I am not nearly so paranoid now about uninstalling the MS trial apps.
Morod
 
Morod said:
No, sorry I haven't tried that, nor do I know how to do that. When I open a .doc file, the Word trial copy opens it. So how do I open a Word document in Pages? And thanks to all for the help. I am not nearly so paranoid now about uninstalling the MS trial apps.
Morod
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Right click -> Open With :)
 
vanmacguy said:
Right click the document, select Get Info. Half way down you'll see Open with:

Just click the drop down and select Pages. Then click the Change All.. button.

Cheers.
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Fantastic! This worked exactly as described. Now, does anyone think it's safe to uninstall the "Office 2004 For Mac Test Drive" application folder from this iMac? It has a lot of stuff in it, more than I would've thought, way more than just Word, Excel and PowerPoint. There's clip art, languages, fonts, even an M$ AutoUpdate, among other things. I would LOVE to uninstall all this, but what are the consequences? Thank you all.
Morod
 
Morod said:
Fantastic! This worked exactly as described. Now, does anyone think it's safe to uninstall the "Office 2004 For Mac Test Drive" application folder from this iMac? It has a lot of stuff in it, more than I would've thought, way more than just Word, Excel and PowerPoint. There's clip art, languages, fonts, even an M$ AutoUpdate, among other things. I would LOVE to uninstall all this, but what are the consequences? Thank you all.
Morod
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No Consequences just uninstall :)
 
What about the reverse? I'm picking up a Mac soon and if I use iWork '08 at home, then take my work to campus, will the PCs there read said files?
 
BOSS10L said:
What about the reverse? I'm picking up a Mac soon and if I use iWork '08 at home, then take my work to campus, will the PCs there read said files?
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Not if they are saved as 'native' iWork files (.pages, .numbers, .keynote). You can always export to an Office-equivalent format from your Mac and take that with you to campus.
 
BOSS10L said:
What about the reverse? I'm picking up a Mac soon and if I use iWork '08 at home, then take my work to campus, will the PCs there read said files?
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You would need to export the files (on your Mac through pages) to a different format, such as .doc or .rtf
 
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