Exporting document in Pages to a Word doc is messing things up!!

Hi,
Since I bought my Macbook I decided to step over to Pages instead of buying Word. I am starting to regret this now. I just created a new document in Pages, my cv. And as soon as I export this into a Word document the lay out has changed a bit. The lines or tabs do not appear nicely underneath each other but moved. I was told that if I used Pages and I need to send a doc to someone with Word that by exporting it, nothing would be changed in the document itself. But now I noticed that it does effect the original doc. What did I do wrong with saving and exporting? Or was I better of with buying Word in the first place? Thanks!

Adiona wrote:
I was told that if I used Pages and I need to send a doc to someone with Word that by exporting it, nothing would be changed in the document itself.
That is definitely not true. All exported Word documents have at least some differences against the original Pages document. There may be small shifts in the interpretation of font heights or pictures and page numbers that move around.
For simple documents this is rarely a problem. For more complicated it often is. If layout is important, you should always verify the layout using some other Word document reader like NeoOffice or indeed MS Office.
For a CV, I would imagine that you do not want the reader to be able to change it. Unless that is the case, export the document to PDF instead. PDF files retain layout much better than Word documents.

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