Exporting Pages documents

A colleague has sent me a number of edited articles which she worked on in Pages (and as she's new to Macs, I'd guess the most recent version), and has sent to me as Word documents; I have Word for Mac 2004, not Pages. Somewhere on the way most of the formatting (italics etc) and images have been lost, and as the articles contain lots of book titles, it will be a real pain to have to reformat them myself. Is there any way she can send the documents without losing the formatting? I have tried googling this, but not come up with anything very helpful.

It sounds like the article is a basic text article which could be created and saved from many applications including TextEdit which is on every Mac sold and can save in several formats including Word.
Try a Copy All from Pages and pasting into TextEdit and saving from there.
I use, and am extremely happy with, *iText Pro/Express* which saves in a multitude of formats: .rtf, Styled Text, HTML, .odt (Open document), .docx (Word 2007), .doc (Word 97), .xml (Word 2003 XML), one of which I am sure would do exactly what you want. iText is a superset of TextEdit, which can open iText files with some loss of layout such as multiple columns.
Most problems in transfer are to do with images and fancy layout such as tables, wraps, breaks, etc.
I wonder if there is a font problem as well in your transfer, a possible transposition of fonts which don't share common styling.
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