Import MS Word Docx into Pages

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Import MS Word Docx into Pages

Hello all, happy day! We have extensive step by step manuals for our classes made in MS Word. We are trying to import them into Pages so we can stop relying on Office. Each time I have tried this the formatting is completely botched. It is perhaps me (usually is) or perhaps the extensive use of tables, sections, and book marks is just choking down Pages. Have not had success with assistance through the business team, they do not know who runs the Pages department, so I find myself here looking for folks that have done successful Word to Pages migration.

Ultimately we want to add video snips to each lab activity and section, and it seems moving to this style of content creation is suited to Apple Creatives and Apple Software.

Thank you in advance! Make the day amazing!

Posted on Nov 18, 2024 2:04 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 18, 2024 3:36 PM in response to Robert Vardell

Pages is not a Word clone and certain features unique to Word, may not be supported or displayed identically when Pages automatically attempts to convert that Word document into Pages own document format. Thinking that you can replace MS Word with Pages could be a utopian ideal that may ultimately frustrate you.

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Answer 2

Nov 18, 2024 3:53 PM in response to VikingOSX

Thank you for being helpful! Was hoping one of the suite would work. We will try Keynote also, yet probably same issue. Right tool for the job may just be word.

anyone that comes across this post, is it feasible to think office can be replaced with the Apple suite. Kind of hard to swallow all that licensing cost per month when Apple has a free set of tools!;)

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Answer 3

Nov 19, 2024 6:02 AM in response to Robert Vardell

Robert Vardell wrote:

Thank you for being helpful! Was hoping one of the suite would work. We will try Keynote also, yet probably same issue. Right tool for the job may just be word.

Because Apple's free tools are intentionally not clones of Microsoft Office applications, there will always be features used in Microsoft documents that do not map to Apple application support. That is the initial hurdle and is not restricted to Pages.

anyone that comes across this post, is it feasible to think office can be replaced with the Apple suite. Kind of hard to swallow all that licensing cost per month when Apple has a free set of tools!;)

You mention "classes" and Microsoft has educational discounts that may be worth further investigation.

There is also the free LibreOffice Suite which is intentionally an MS Office clone, has been in continuous development for decades, and comes with a learning curve. The Document Foundation behind this office suite also provides extensive user documentation for each of the LibreOffice applications.

A LibreOffice feature comparison with Microsoft Office.

A Wikipedia article on LibreOffice.

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