Word to Pages

[Teri]

I have some Word documents that I want to copy and then paste in Pages.
Of course I am prohibited unless I purchase Word 365.
Is there a way to do this? My end goal is to get rid of Word documents and just use Pages.
Some are useless if I cannot edit them or copy and save them to a Pages document.
Thank you
Teri

 

[TimRichards]

Pages itself is capable of opening and reading Word docs. Here’s an article about it.

How to open a Microsoft Word document in Pages on a Mac computer, and export a Pages file back to Word

You can open a Microsoft Word document in Pages if you don't have Word on your Mac computer. Here's how to do it.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Teri]

Hi Tim,
Thanks for the reply.
I can open them. I can read them. I do have the old Word on my Mac. I cannot edit them or copy the contents and then paste into Pages. I want to change them to a pages doc. Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[Cougurr]

Teri
As Tim had indicated you want to just open these old Word fires BUT using Pages and NOT copy paste them from your older word program on your Mac.
When you open pages you need to cancel the first window that opens offering options for you to select from. Then go to the menu bar for Pages at the stop of your screen and go to File menu and down to the Open option.
Then navigate on your hard drive to locate and select the actual Word document you want to open. (You are just using the Pages program to open your old Word file instead of the old Word Program.
At that point Pages will translate the document from Word to Pages and open directly. Now some minor format might change or if an older font was used it will provide an alternative font.

The file you see on your screen will be the new Pages version of your old Word file. Save this with an appropriate name to your Documents folder now as this new Pages file. You can then proceed to edit it as you desire and of course print if you are set up to do that.

Hope this helps.
Colin

 

[Teri]

Oh for Pete sake. That so much better. Could not get my brain to understand. I open them from within Pages. Simple. Thanks so much!
Cheers
Teri

 

[TimRichards]

Teri
As Tim had indicated you want to just open these old Word fires BUT using Pages and NOT copy paste them from your older word program on your Mac.
When you open pages you need to cancel the first window that opens offering options for you to select from. Then go to the menu bar for Pages at the stop of your screen and go to File menu and down to the Open option.
Then navigate on your hard drive to locate and select the actual Word document you want to open. (You are just using the Pages program to open your old Word file instead of the old Word Program.
At that point Pages will translate the document from Word to Pages and open directly. Now some minor format might change or if an older font was used it will provide an alternative font.

The file you see on your screen will be the new Pages version of your old Word file. Save this with an appropriate name to your Documents folder now as this new Pages file. You can then proceed to edit it as you desire and of course print if you are set up to do that.

Hope this helps.
Colin

Thanks Colin!

 

[chas_m]

The only thing I’ll add to Colin’s excellent advice is that you can (optionally) tell your Mac to automatically open all Word documents in Pages.

The easy method: remove Word from your computer. Now any Word documents will have to open in Pages, or at least ask you if you have other programs that could open Word documents which app you want to use.

The slightly harder method: right click on a Word document, and choose “get info.” About halfway down on the info pane that opens, you can choose to open this one document in Pages, or all such documents in Pages. Choose the latter.