Opening .doc in Word

On my imac, how do I direct .doc extension documents to open with MIcrosoft Word that os installed on my pc?

Your question is a little difficult to understand however I'll try. You can open a MS Word document created on your PC using either MS Office for Mac or you can use Apple's Pages app. Both of the Apple apps can also save in a .doc format so you can easily move documents between the platforms. In Office for Mac you would use the Save As command and save as a .doc, the default in Word 2011 is docx which is MS's most up to date file format for MS Word. In Pages you would export the document.

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With Adobe Illustrator I may open doc documents(word) and convert to pdf ?

Ise,
You can, although (maybe) only the first page of the .doc; this may depend on the Illy version.

Opening Docs in Word Hangs the System

I'm running OSX 10.4.11 (actually, it's OSX Server, but none of the other workstations are affected, so I think we can ignore that for now) on a MacPro 2 x 2.6GHz machine with 4GB of RAM.
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I've reinstalled Office. I trashed the preference and cache files. I ran Disk Utility and fixed permissions. No go. Help!
Again, I am fairly sure that this has something to do with Office's proprietary Open dialogue box, because I can fire up Word and—if I've done so by double-clicking on a document in the Finder rather then on the application icon—edit and even save. I can open documents in non-MS applications just fine. (And, as I said, I can open and save Office documents on the other computers on the network.) But open a doc in Word or Excel (or, presumably, PowerPoint), and boom—everything comes crashing down.
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I'm still struggling with this.
I can open documents in non-MS applications. (I'm on the affected workstation now, and have just opened docs in Preview, Apple Pages, and GoLive CS.) I can open the MicroSoft Office Project Launcher, so the problem doesn't seem to be that particular application, but when I try to open a document from Word or Excel, the whole system hangs. Which brings down our entire LAN. Which is a big drag.
For now, we use the other workstations for anything that'll involve an Office application. But we would like to use this one as well!
Again: it's a MacPro 2 x 2.66 Intel with 4GB of RAM running OS X Server 10.4.11.
Help?
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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.
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Keep receiving pop up whit message " can not be opened"
Yves
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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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Hi Hank
Welcome to the forum.
Try updating your system to at least 10.5.9
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== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I think it's always been the case

I have a similar problem. Even though Word is listed under Firefox applications as opening .doc files, when I try to download a .doc file, it always asks me to choose an application and I have to go through an extra three steps to open Word.

How can I use Automator to open and save Word docs with links?

Hi-
I'm having trouble building a Workflow to open and save Word docs with links.
My Workflow so far:
1. Get Finder items
2. Copy Finder items (to new folder)
3. Rename selected items
4. Open selected items (Word docs)
Three problems occur.
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The third problem I have is that there's no Finder action in Automator that allows me to save the document that's now open (as far as I can see).
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Jeremy
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Hi there Jeremy,
to do this you are going to have to add in some Run AppleScript steps...
These will rely on GUI Scripting. So first you need to activate GUI Scripting.
Now we need to add in a Run AppleScript action to the end of your workflow...
This will replace your current number 4 in the workflow (Open Selected...)
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">on run {input, parameters}
set allItems to every item of input
repeat with currItem in allItems
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end tell
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keystroke return
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You need to replace the name Text Wrangler with Microsoft Word (or whatever it is called!), I don't have it on my Mac.
You will have to let me know what button needs pressing in the first dialog, if it isn't the 'highlighted ' one then we will have to amend the script...
regards
Ric

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I'm trying to open a 900kb Word doc (240pages) in Pages but get this error message: Import Warning - A table was too big. Only the first 40 columns and 1,000 rows were imported.

Julian,
Pages simply won't support a table with that many rows. If you need that many, you must use another application.
Perhaps the originator could use a tabbed list rather than a table. That's the only way you will be able to contain a list that long in Pages. You can do the conversion yourself if you open the Word document in LibreOffice, Copy the Table, Paste the Table into Numbers, Export the Numbers doc to CSV, and import to Pages. In Pages Find and Replace the Commas with Tabs.
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I'm using Firefox v12 to open a hyperlink from a website that points to a filename.doc MS Word Document for download.
We are then asked to open the file with MS Word (Default), which our installed version is MS Word 2010.
Firefox then renames the file appending a .docx to the filename e.g filename.doc.docx. MS Word 2010 opens with error 'incorrect file format', which is correct as Firefox has renamed it.
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Hello Jscher2000,
I can save the file and it opens fine.
It's when I open it directly, Firefox appends the 'docx' extenstion to the filename.
If I continue to reopen from the web link, Firefox renames the file as so
mydoc.doc-1.docx
mydoc.doc-2.docx
mydoc.doc-3.docx
I can open a .doc from a Microsoft site ok.
I have the feeling it's the way the web server is reporting the mime type to Firefox.
The link in question works fine in Internet Explorer.
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Ok I forgot to try to hit Open With for Word and that worked for one document but I still want to know how to get it open in pages.
Well you can do the same thing for Pages. From the Get Info window, choose Pages for Open With.
But you should also be able to:
drag a Word document and drop it on the Pages icon or
Launch Pages, choose File > Open, find the Word document using the Open box and click Open.
If neither works please explain what steps you're following and what happens.
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According to your description, my understanding is that you could not edit documents with Office client application in SharePoint 2010.
Let’s do a troubleshooting about this issue:
1. Make sure that you have installed Office application on your machine.
2. Which explorer did you use for your SharePoint. Please test it with IE 10 32-bit, compare the result.
3. Please try to reset IE, compare the result.
4. Add your SharePoint site into Trusted site on your IE options.
5. Make sure all add-ons related to SharePoint are enable, special for SharePoint OpenDocument Class and SharePointOpenXMLDocuments.
6. Since you used OWA for your SharePoint site, please try to disable OWA, then open documents with client application, compare the result.
I hope this helps.
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Wendy
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Hi people, im using Flash MX 2004 and want to know if I can
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published. I dont expect it to insert the text into the flash file,
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>
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what ways have you tried?
what does or doesn't happen?
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