Open .doc file with pages

Is there a possibility, that I can double click a .doc file and pages instead of word will open the document?

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If the Word document is password protected Pages will not open it. I suggest trying one of the Office clones such as NeoOffice or Open Office.

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    hi,
    whenever I click on a .doc document pages tells me that:
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    does anyone has an idea how to solve that? make pages open .doc?
    best,
    jakob

    Jakob1233 wrote:
    The weird thing is that it was a .doc file (I suspect an older version is what has caused that error) and not .rtf... I tried to open the same document with the older version of pages, which worked fine.
    No, I can assure you it was an RTF file.  The fact that the filename ended ".doc" is irrelevant and certainly does not make a file a Microsoft Word document.  The filename is irrelevant, and the file content is what's critical.  For example, I could take a .mp3 music file, and then rename it "Presentation.doc".  You would not be able to open this in any word processing software on any operating system.
    Also remember that having files end with ".xxx", although a requirement in Microsoft Windows is completely optional in other operating systems like OS X and Linux.  Files do not have to have "extensions" at all.
    You have two options:
    1.  Rename the file, removing the ".doc" part.  Now when you open in Finder, it will automatically open with Text Edit, which is OS X's RTF editor.  If you absolutely must cling to Windows conventions, you could set the extension as ".rtf" - it makes no difference, as Finder uses the file content format to detemine the best program to use.
    2.  If you do have Microsoft Word available (either on Windows or Mac), open the .doc file in Word, choose "save as..", change the document type from RTF to the Word ".doc" format, ignore the warning informing you that you are changing the format, and then Save.  Now you can open the file in Pages.
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    Message was edited by: MichaelLudt

    Select the file. Do a "Get-Info" from the File menu. (command-I). In the drop down menu "open with" select the program and then confirm you want all files like these to open with that program.

  • Why can I no longer open .doc files with Word2011

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    A colleague of mine is having the exact same problem. 
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    You may want to ask your Office for Mac question in the Office for Mac forums: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac?auth=1

  • Problem with opening doc. files in pages '09

    Hello, can anybody help me, ever since i installed " snow leopard" v10.6.2, pages '09 doesn't open doc. files ( word ) anymore.
    Even documents produced in pages en ""saved as" a word document can't be opened again.
    Keep receiving pop up whit message " can not be opened"
    Yves
    Message was edited by: deschutter

    You need to manually install the 10.6.2 "Combo" version, there were problems with just using the regular update.
    See:
    http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=153&mforum=iworktips ntrick
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  • Can't open .doc files in Pages with Snow Leopard

    I just installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Pages can no longer open .doc files. I receive the error message: "The document “XXX.doc” couldn’t be opened."
    (Operating with iWork 09)
    Help?

    Welcome to Apple Discussions
    But now I don't have the option "save as" word document as I used to before I installed the update for snow leopard. It only lets me save as iwork '06 or '05.
    That's Pages 3/iWork '08. You may have both iWork '08 & '09 on your Mac & '08 has opened. You can have more than one version, I have three, but you'll need to find a way to identify each one. I have changed the icons for two of the versions & have aliases to each in a folder where I added the version number. This way I can know which one I'm opening & they look different in my Dock. Do not add a version number to the actual application, the updaters then won't find them. (Can you tell I like changing icons? )

  • Can't open doc. files in pages

    Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, Pages won't let me open doc files.
    Is there a way I can fix this?
    Also...I was just thinking about upgrading to the newer iLife09.
    Would that be a better thing to do running Snow Leopard and what not?
    And if I do upgrade to iLife09, I'll still be able to open iLife08 documents.
    Thanks
    -Nathan Rojas

    Nathan Rojas wrote:
    Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, Pages won't let me open doc files.
    Is there a way I can fix this?
    Also...I was just thinking about upgrading to the newer iLife09.
    Would that be a better thing to do running Snow Leopard and what not?
    And if I do upgrade to iLife09, I'll still be able to open iLife08 documents.
    Thanks
    -Nathan Rojas
    iLife & iWork are two separate software packages/suites sold by Apple. I do believe you mean iWork '08.
    Many users are finding problems with the iWork apps in Snow Leopard due to not having the latest updates as of the September 28 installed. For iWork '08 that is Pages 3.0.3 & Numbers 1.0.3. For iWork '09 it's Pages 4.0.2 & Numbers 2.0.2. iWork '09 has since had update 3. I don't use Keynote, but it should also be updated. If you're not running the latest versions & Software Update says your software is up to date, make sure the applications are where the installer initially put them. The updaters are very picky. If the location is not where the updater is programmed to look or if the folder doesn't have the name the updater looks for, it will not work. The applications cannot be renamed or moved. They must be in the iWork '08 or iWork '09 folder in Applications. That iWork folder must be named iWork '08 or iWork '09. If it doesn't have the '08 or '09 Software Update won't find them & the updaters won't work.

  • Problems opening .doc file in pages?

    Hi this is my first post so please redirect me if this question has already been answered.  Ok, I am trying to open a .doc file that I typed in Officesuite pro 6 on my Kindle Fire 2G, and after I have downloaded it to my mac (2006 iMac running OS X 10.6.8), I try to open it and I get this error:
    Please tell me if I need to use a converter, rewrite it, or do whatever needs to  be done to get it opened.  By the way I am using iWork '09.
    Thanks for your help!
              - masterJdogd

    Even though it is labeled as a .doc file, obviously Pages knows it wasn't created with Word. First, you might see if TextEdit can open it & re-save it as .doc or .rtf & see if Pages would recognize it. Another option would be to use a free Office clone such as LibreOffice to open & re-save it.
    Or it just could be the # in the file name. Try renaming the file & see what happens.

  • Opening .doc files in pages

    Someone has sent me a .doc word file and when i right click 'open in pages' a window is displayed reading 'the file format is invalid'. It's strange because this has never happened before and we haven't done anything different to what we normally do regarding opening .doc files etc.
    It doesn't open in text edit either. Does anyone have any work around? Free word software anywhere on the internet?
    Really need some help with this, hours of work has gone into this file we can't open!! And now it might be lost!
    Cheers,
    Jamie McIntyre

    moviemaniac2 wrote:
    Really need some help with this, hours of work has gone into this file we can't open!! And now it might be lost!
    The simple soluce would be to ask the author for a document using a format which you will be able to read.
    A message which I like to send is: +"Your xyz.doc document is not recognized as a standard format on my machine so it was deliberately deleted. If you wish that I read it's contents, use an other format. Don't try with PowerPoint, it would be trashed too."+
    Is it too complicated?
    My guess is that the document uses the most recent .doc format. If I'm right, as thisformat was not defined when Pages 3 was built, the described behavior is not surprising.
    I don't know the details of this file format.
    You may send it to my mailbox, I will be glad to look at its internals. (the readable contents is not what I'm interested to.
    Click my blue name to get my mailbox address.
    Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 19 juin 2008 16:37:53)

  • Warning when opening a .doc file (with Pages) ruins my applescript convert process

    I have 2000 plus documents (some Pages, most .doc) that I need to convert to PDF. I've got a working applescript droplet that converts both doc and pages files very nicely... but on some of the .doc files I get this dialog: "Some warnings occured. Would you like to review them now."  This of course, ruins my script run.
    Is there a way to suppress this warning when Pages opens a .doc file?

    Only if there is a script for dialog boxes in your AppleScript which you would have to tailor for the responses.
    You can record snippets of mouse activity using the Script Editor and include those in your script if there are no AppleScript library items.
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  • Is there a way to open doc files in Pages by default?

    I am new to Mac's, previous PC user. anyhow, just got a new MacBook Pro and love it. I purchased iWorks and am using Pages to create and open Word documents.
    My question is what steps should I take to have Pages open Word docs by default. Right now when I try to open a Word doc downloaded from another location, it tries to use the trial version of Word for Mac.
    Thanks.
    Bill

    Welcome to Apple Discussions Bill
    Highlight a known Word document in the Finder, highlight it & choose Get Info from the File menu. In the Get Info box, click the triangle next to "Open With." Click on this drop-down menu & choose Pages. If Pages is not a choice, choose "Other" & navigate to the Pages application. Now click the "Change" button under the text that asks if you want to open all documents like this with Pages. You can then double-click the Word documents & they will open in Pages. Note that the icon for the Word files will have a plain, white icon. Repeat with Excel/Numbers & PowerPoint/Keynote.

  • Increasingly cannot open .doc files in Pages

    Am a big pages user and have all .doc files auto set to open in Pages.
    But since moving over to my new MB Air I find I can't open a lot of .doc files.
    Not sure if its something I tweaked previously on my old Air of if there are just changes that Word has made that Pages isn't dealing well with.
    I'm running Pages 4.0.4
    Anyone got any ideas?

    Maybe the documents are created with the late Word version in a format which is not recognized by Pages '09 which was introduced in january 2009.
    Maybe the memory available is short or the available space available on the HD is short too.
    iWork application use Virtual memory which is in fact HD space.
    As the SSD delivered with the new macBook Air are small, I'm afraid that this is the true explanation.
    Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 3 décembre 2010 11:21:18

  • Open Doc File with Word via Remoteapp

    Server 2012 with RDS. We publish office to some client pc's that do not have office installed locally. Is it possible to associate office files like doc, xls and so on so that when the user clicks to open an office file, the file will use the published office
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    Answered and discussed in related thread:
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/ffe9d4d0-d7eb-4ec5-9891-8b17721057f1
    Solution for Word 2013 (copied from thread referenced above):
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    "AppUserModelId"="Microsoft.Windows.RemoteDesktop"
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    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Word.2013\DefaultIcon]
    @="C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\RemotePackages\\WINWORD.ico,0"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Word.2013\shell]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Word.2013\shell\open]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Word.2013\shell\open\command]
    @="\"mstsc.exe\" /REMOTEFILE:\"%1\" \"C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\RemotePackages\\WINWORD.rdp\""
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.doc]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.doc\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dochtml]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dochtml\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docm]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docm\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docx]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docx\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docxml]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docxml\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dot]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dot\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dothtml]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dothtml\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dotm]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dotm\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dotx]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dotx\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.odt]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.odt\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.rtf]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.rtf\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.wbk]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.wbk\Word.2013]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.wiz]
    @="Word.2013"
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.wiz\Word.2013]
    3. Please test by applying the .reg file you have created above to the Win7 workstation and then see if the RemoteApp file association works as desired.  If it works okay for you I will post more so that you will know what extensions
    to use.
    4. After you get the above working successfully, next work on customizing it for the specific user path to their workspace feed or other changes you would like to make.
    Thanks.
    -TP

  • Cant open ANY file with Pages 3.0.2 (iWork'08)

    I cant open any file, not even a blank document. When I try to start a new document, I get the message:"The template “Blank.template” could not be opened."  This happens with ALL templates (obviously the name of the template changes to that being tried to open).
    Interesting enough is that Pages do not crash, as the menu bar on top is available.
    Trying to open an existing document doesn't work also, as after selecting it and clicking OK, the browsing window closes but the file does not open.
    This only happens with my account (administrator level). I've tried deleting the "com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist" file from MyAccount/library/preferences (moving it to Trash) but still the same.
    Please HELP   My operating system is 10.5.6
    Regards
    Arturo Trevino

    In your own account, the unique preferences file directly related to Pages is:
    <startupVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork.Pages.pl ist
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    But, before removing it, go to the Preferences menu item to check which is defined as the default template in your own preferences.
    I am tired so I will switch off soon.
    I will be back to-morrow.
    Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 25 décembre 2008 21:30:01)

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