Converting ALL my old microsoft word files to pages files?

Question

i am a switchover user from a mac. all my documents that were from my PC are now on my mac, but they are all just regular files, and not the Pages type of file. incidentally, when i try to open one of these files, TextEdit is the default program. Is there any way that i can do one mass conversion of all my files to make them all Pages files? thanks

Answer 1

Hullo Bozz_2006:
With regard to your first question - you are, in fact, duplicating files when you save in this way. I don't know how many .doc files you have, but short of a mammoth folder, it could well be simpler to make a practice of deleting each one as you save it to Pages; or a project of going through the lot and then deleting the folder you had your .doc files in - given that you're satisfied the transition has been successful. And this way you'd be checking them as you go.
Keeping your converted Pages documents in their own folder is also easy if taken one at a time. "Save As ..." in the File menu will give you the option of doing this; and also creating a new folder at the same time. The keyboard shortcut to this is Shift/Command/S. The dialogue box it presents will show you this.
With this done, you can then drag and drop the Pages docs already on your desktop into your new folder, and if need be (Say you'd called your Word docs folder "Documents" and would like to stick with this), use File/Get Info in Finder to rename it from, say "Pages Docs" once you've deleted the former Word folder. You can also use the Finder File menu to put it in the Sidebar.
Mine's a "penny plain" answer. But I find the odd repetitive cleaning up more relaxing and probably as quick, when you get down to it, as messing about with scripts for what is, after all, a one-off project.
On the other hand, it would be smart of Apple to produce a script for just what you're doing. You might like to suggest it via "Provide Pages Feedback" in the Pages main menu. But don't hold your breath: I suspect that Apple / MS politics oblige Steve to tread lightly on winning converts too easily! And neither would any feasible script afford you the opportunity to inspect each example before committing to the conversion.
Cheers.