Comments on: Tutorial – Save a Pages Document in Word Format

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:49:16 +0000

The new Pages in Lion OS doesn’t save in .docx but in .doc when exported. It no longer has a “save as” option and it’s driving me crazy. My professors only choose to view the formatting in word documents and I while Pages does not export the format settings. I love Pages and dislike the educational system because it is all Windows based.

By: Freddie Harrison

Freddie Harrison — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:16:06 +0000

Hi Nicole,

Thanks for getting in touch – unfortunately, there could be a number of reasons why your Pages document isn’t exporting, so we’ll have to try and whittle this down a little. First off, what operating system are you running? The most recent one for Mac is OS X 10.7 Lion, you can find this out by clicking the Apple logo in the top-left of your screen and then ‘About this Mac’. It’d also be useful to know what version of Pages you’re using. This can be found by clicking on ‘Pages’ in the menu bar when the app is running and then clicking on ‘About Pages’. Is this an issue with every document you try to export?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:26:58 +0000

I am having issues with exporting page documents to word documents. An error box comes up and says unable to export. What do you think is wrong?

By: jameslala

jameslala — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:27:59 +0000

Amazing.

That works well.

Thanks very much

By: Freddie Harrison

Freddie Harrison — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:31:28 +0000

Hi Samantha,

There are a few discrepancies when it comes to saving Pages documents in .doc format, especially when it comes to text boxes. Have you tried exporting any other documents in Word format? If you’ve had the same problem it may well be one of these export issues but if it works fine it might well be something document specific. The only other thing we can suggest is that if you’re exporting your document to Word format so, for example, a Windows user can read it, that you export it to a PDF. This should preserve all of your text boxes and formatting in a universal document format that everyone can open and read.

Hope this helps!

Freddie

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:33:01 +0000

I can save my Pages doc in Word format, but text boxes move around and disappear. A whole page disappears. And I get an error message saying certain aspects are not supported (character boundaries? text wrapping?) and therefore removed. What am I doing wrong??

By: Stephen Ashby

Stephen Ashby — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:29:41 +0000

Hi Kyle,

I’m afraid this tutorial was written before Lion was released, and it has now changed the functionality of Pages. You can now save Versions of your work which you can then flick back through to see the changes you’ve made (kind of like with Time Machine).

Export is now the best port of call if you want to save in a different format, but you’ve already found that one! If you have any problems with it just let us know

Stephen

By: Kyle McGyle

Kyle McGyle — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:42:36 +0000

When I tried typing doing this tutorial, it didn’t show up as save as. It only say “save a version”. I started to experiment a bit with the softwaren until i found export. I did this by either going File>export or Share>export Anyone else have this problem?

By: Foinah Jameson

Foinah Jameson — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:18:55 +0000

It does indeed port to a word document, but it loses any formatting for headers and footers!

How do I save a .pages file as word WITH the headers? Novel manuscripts need these. Any help with figuring this out is appreciated!

By: Zayenn

Zayenn — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:10:06 +0000

There is another way, if you would only like to switch document types!
File > Export
Choose the type of document.
This is what worked for me, I hope it helps.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:44:55 +0000

I wish I could save to word format as a default, because I have to share everything with word-only users.