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Editing And Saving Microsoft Word Documents In Pages
Mar 13, 2025
A quick tutorial talking about Word documents and Pages.
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hey everyone today I'm going to be
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showing you how you can easily edit and
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save Microsoft Word documents right from
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Pages uh it's not that hard and it's
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actually easier than you probably think
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it is now a lot of people criticize Max
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for not being able to you know display
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Word documents but that's not true at
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all you actually can so assuming that
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you have ieor installed on your system
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all you have to do is go up to your
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Spotlight menu and search for pages and
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you can open up pages from
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here so when you get to your template
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Chooser you can just choose a blank
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document doesn't really matter and
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you're going to see your document here
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so now you can type the text of your
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document here and do whatever you want
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you know make this bold underline it
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maybe italicize It Center it change the
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size doesn't matter what you want want
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to do uh you can do whatever you want
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and when it comes time to save it um
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you'll just go up you know file save and
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this dialogue box is going to drop down
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and what you're going to see here is the
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your save panel now it default saves it
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as Pages file which is the format that
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page uses to save all its files now what
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you can do here to save it as a
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Microsoft Word document say you use word
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at work or something like that all you
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have to do right here right next to the
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check check box that says include
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preview and document you can click the
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check mark check mark that says save
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copy as and then you can choose Word
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document or I work8 in this case we're
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going to be choosing I or Word document
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because you're just trying to save it as
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a Word document now it's going to save a
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copy of this as a Word document and you
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can also then save a copy as a Pages
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document now unfortunately it only
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supports the older style doc file
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types so if you're working with like
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Word 2007 you're not going to be able to
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save it as
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docx that's something that'll probably
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be resolved in a newer version of ior so
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from here you can just click save and
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what it's going to do is it's going to
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export it and save it to your desktop
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now you're going to see here that you
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can still save it as a Pages file from
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here and you know just like you would so
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I'm just going to click don't save here
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and you can see I can easily open up
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that doc documents now you can also open
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up that docx documents and edit them on
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here but you're not going to be able to
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save them as dox you're going to have to
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save them as the older. dooc format so
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that's one shortcoming of pages but
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still it is a solution and it does still
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work now you'll notice here that I have
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this document warnings panel that open
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up when I open up the document and it
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says character borders aren't supported
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and we're removed so when you're working
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with that DLC files you're going to come
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up with errors once in a while uh
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specifically if you use a Mac only font
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and you try to open it on a Windows
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computer you're not going to be able to
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see that font on there cuz it's not
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installed so it's safe to work with only
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fonts that you know are on both
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systems um so typical ones like Times
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New Roman things like that other than
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those formatting issues and the docx
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issue it works pretty seamlessly and
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pretty flawlessly and I've had no
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troubles with it I've been using it for
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a while now so that's an easy way that
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you can actually use Microsoft Word
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files in pages and uh can save a lot of
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time and a lot of the hassle of
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transferring files back and forth and
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worrying about different formats if you
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handle a lot of files like that
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documents and such so that's about all I
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hope you found this useful and thank you
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for
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watching
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