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Hello, does anyone know of a way to open an MS Word file (with comments/annotations) in Pages for Mac? (Or some other WP program for Mac?)
Hello, does anyone know of a way to open an MS Word file (with comments/annotations) in Pages for Mac? (Or some other WP program for Mac?)
If I may, it's not the .doc format that's bad, per se, the problem lies in the macros (small user-generated programs) that certain word-processors allow people to create and embed within the document file.
Like Windows itself, because Word and its .doc macros are so incredibly widespread, it makes them an attractive attack vector for miscreants. I may be wrong, but I think the later versions of Word actually have their macro-processing abilities disabled by default; either way, if you don't use macros, you should probably scour the Word options to ensure that macro support is turned off.
Also, Wordpad is, and has always been, capable of loading and saving .doc files. It's true however that Wordpad does not support every feature of Word, which is perhaps what you meant?
No problem =)
But one last thing: if you are indeed comfortable with OpenOffice, its installation size is insignificant compared to the 28GB free on your loaned computer, so I wouldn't worry about installing it.
There's always Google docs
Hello, does anyone know of a way to open an MS Word file (with comments/annotations) in Pages for Mac? (Or some other WP program for Mac?)
Sorry for not checking back in, folks. The author in question couldn't make it work in Pages. In the end we saved it as a .pdf in Word, which preserved the comments (but made it impossible to edit, so it's not a perfect solution.) I'm actually now suspecting it was a docx file and not a doc...
Well, what was the extension? Do you know what version of Pages he or she was using?
If there is bandwidth available, downloading LibreOffice would probably have worked.
I was out of the office (moving house) and working as second-hand tech support, so I'm not entirely sure how it played out.
I was out of the office (moving house) and working as second-hand tech support, so I'm not entirely sure how it played out.
You were Having A Life?
I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you!