Opening word docs

Which program makes using Word documents easy to create and read on the Mac. I already have Pages and was wondering if there was another that people recommend...

And just for completeness, there is Word for the Mac on the expensive end and several free/open office packages available.

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Can you open word doc. In pages? (Opening a doc. From the web) in the iPad or iPod tuch?

Can you open word doc. In pages? (Opening a doc. From the web) in the iPad or iPod tuch?

NH,
This may seem a fine point, but iWork apps don't actually Open Office apps. They Import them. The reason I make this distinction for you is that when you view the result of the import, you may see some variations from what was in the Office document because of an imperfect translation, and when you make edits, you are editing an iWork document, not the original Office document.
Jerry

How can I open Word docs with Pages?

I just installed the iWorks software because it said it would open Word docs. Now I can't seem to open any Word .doc files I had archived onto CDs, after abandoning my PC.
I've made Pages my default application for opening text, and that didn't help. I just keep getting the error message "The document "X.doc" couldn't be opened." Any ideas?
IMAC Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Welcome to Apple Discussions Paul
Pages - the word processing/page layout application in iWork (no "s") - usually doesn't have any problems with opening Word files, but I do believe it can't open any Word files older than version 6. It is also highly unlikely that it would be able to open any from the new 2007 version. If your documents are from a version in between those, they should open.
How are you trying to open them? There are at least three common methods, but, since you say the documents are on a CD, I suggest copying them from the CD to your hard drive first. To open one at a time you can use File > Open (where > means following menu commands with your cursor). To open more than one at a time, select the ones you want by Command- (⌘) clicking the files & then dragging them onto the Pages icon in the Dock or a Finder window or Control- or right-click & choose Pages from Open with in the contextual menu that appears.

Can't open Word docs with Pages 08

Since upgrading to SL I found that I can no longer open Word documents sent to me via email attachments. Can this be remedied? I thought Macs were able to "translate" Word files.
Help!

I did discover I can open Word docs with Text Edit, but it's a multi-step process now. I really don't want to upgrade to iWork 09 and I'm not sure that would solve the problem. I also have to use Quick Time now to open movies in iPhoto. Another multi-step process. I'm not very happy with SL.

Open Word docs with the new Pages?

Pages does not open. I had the new one installed but apparently had the old one still up. How can I open Word docs with the new Pages?

Pages 5 is in your Applications folder.
Pages '09/'08 is in your Applications/iWork folder.
You are alternately opening the wrong versions.
Pages '09/'08 can not open Pages 5 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5.01 can not open Pages 5.1 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5 can open Pages '09 files but may damage/alter them. It can not open Pages '08 files at all.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5 the Pages '09 files can not be opened in Pages '09.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5.1 files can not be opened in Pages 5.
Anything that is saved to iCloud is also converted to Pages 5 files.
All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.
Apple has removed over 95 features from Pages 5 and added many bugs:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Archive/trash Pages 5, after exporting all Pages 5 files to Pages '09 or Word .docx, and rate/review it in the App Store, then get back to work.
Peter

Opening word docs in pages

Hi
I have just upgraded from an 8 year old imac to a brand new one, and have decided to use pages, instead of Office for mac which I used previously on the old mac, but I am have great difficulty in opening word docs in pages.
I have selected a .doc, gone to get info,then open with, pages( default ), then change all, then try to open a word doc, which results in, unable to open.
I must be doing something wrong, hence I would be grateful for any assistance.
Many Thanks

You need to uninstall the iWork trial. Read second post on this link http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=105&highlight=reinst all&mforum=iworktipsntrick

How to open word doc. from forms 10g

hi all
i am trying to open word doc. from forms 10g using ole2.
but it is not working.
basiccaly this command is not working
app := CLIENT_OLE2.CREATE_OBJ('Word.Application');
can anybody help
thanx

I found this searching this forum and it works..however, my issue is to open up Microsoft Word passing in data from a query.
I am working on Forms 10g
DECLARE AppID PLS_INTEGER;
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DDE.APP_MODE_NORMAL);
END;

After downloading Pages upgrade I now can only open Word docs and not any of the Page docs I've saved.???

After downloading Pages upgrade I now can only open Word docs and not any of the Page docs I've saved.???

Which version are the document's in?

Can't open word docs in pages 08

recently upgraded to snow leopard then installed iwork 08. can't open any word docs using pages 08 or excel docs using numbers 08 upgraded to x.0.3 versions and repaired disc permissions. Help anyone!

I did discover I can open Word docs with Text Edit, but it's a multi-step process now. I really don't want to upgrade to iWork 09 and I'm not sure that would solve the problem. I also have to use Quick Time now to open movies in iPhoto. Another multi-step process. I'm not very happy with SL.

Can't open Word docs after updating to Pages 5.1

Can't open Word docs after updating to Pages 5.1. Have newest Mavericks OS.

I could open .doc and .docx files when I originally purchased Pages 4.3 in July 2013. After software was updated to 5.1 January 2014 I can no longer open any .doc or .docx files. Now, when I try to open one, is says for example: "PET.doc" can't be opened.
**You, know what? I just tried to save a pages document and it won't even let me do that. Saying I don't have permission to move. I double checked my sharing & permissions and that's not the problem. I can't even export the file to anything else (pdf, word, etc). Says the same thing: "Document.pages couldn't be moved because you don't have permission to access folder. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info."
So it seems the entire app is crap. Although like I said it worked fine pre-update.

Strange problem when opening word doc situated in WLS virtual dir

Hi all,
we have a strange problem when opening word doc
situated in C:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\forms\webutil
we put some word docs there and tried to open from forms using for example web.show_document('http://wp0606:9001/forms/webutil/mug00103.doc', '_blank');
no problem using FF, however in IE8 the word doc is shown in its binary format, this also happens when we try to open the doc in IE8
however when we google and search for instance for a test.doc and then click on this url a file save dialog is shown
that's why we believe that this might be due to a configuration issue of WLS
any help would be greatly appreciated
Kr
Martin

I think you have 2 ways to go here. Figure out what html is from wherever weblogic gets it, meaning you have to delve into the docs, snoop
around in directories and find what it must be sending (This is going to be unavoidable if you are going to change what weblogic is doing.
Sooner or later you have to try to figure out where it gets this stuff from)
or
you can experimentally snoop on your url with a tool like wget or curl. These are fundamental web tools.
The latter is always a useful thing to be able to do. (you need to formulate a query to get the content-type).
Whoever managed to get weblogic to serve any files in the first place probably can figure this out.

Open office won't open word docs automatically

I downloaded Openoffice.org to open word docs. When I click on internet Word docs they don't open right away, I have to download to folder then open in Open org, is there way to set it up so it automatically opens it up or do I need download Word?

Hello Psychteacn,
The following article describes the process involved in associating particular document types with an application.
OS X Mavericks: Choose an app to open a document
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14279
Cheers,
Allen

Why can I no longer open WORD Docs.?

I can no longer open WORD Docs on my computer for the following reason. Anybondy know what I can do about this? Thank you.
"You can't open the application "Microsoft Word" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported"

Upgrade to a new version, Rosetta was dropped two years ago with the introduction of 10.7 Lion.
You could use OpenOffice too.
You might want to bookmark OS X Community and iMac.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/imac
http://www.apple.com/support/

Open WORD docs question....

I have iWorks 09 and Microsoft Office 2004 on my MacBook. When someone emails me a Word Doc and I open it, the doc opens in Pages, not Word. Yet when I receive an Excel or Powerpoint, these open in the original format. What do I need to do to have Word docs open with Word and not Pages?
Thank you,
tribs

Brie
With inexperienced users, even some experienced users, you should never give incomplete instructions.
That is why, when I can, I give full starting point and paths of the necessary steps.
You may know where something is but not everyone else does.
This is the bane of most instructional books. The worst are those dealing with Adobe's products which suffer enormously from palletitis and features stashed willy nilly throughout a badly thought through interface.
Pages and OSX have some fairly key functions stashed out of sight and you do need to give the full path to access them.
Peter

Open Word Doc from form in web setting not client/server

Hello, I am new to form. I need to open a word doc (on client PC )from Oracle Form by a button click. I did some research online and looks like Client_Ole2 is the package I need. But when I looked into my Build-in Package (in forms builder), I only see OLE2, TEXT_IO etc. So when I try to declare a variable which is CLIENT_OLE2 like some post suggest, I got error message "identifier CLIENT_OLE2.OBJ_TYPE must be declared".
So is that means that I need to install/setup WebUtil on my env to get this Client_Ole2 to show up on Form Builder?
Thanks for help, please advise.

I found the way to add webutil.pll to attached Libraries.This is the wrong way. Open the webutil.olb in the Forms Builder. Then open your form you want to add the Object Library too. In the Object Libraries node of the Object Navigator - double-click on the WEBUTIL node. This will open the Object Library properties window. Click on and drag the WEBUTIL entry to the Object Groups node of your Form. You will be prompted "Do you want to copy the object or subclass it?" Click on the Subclass button.
Subclassing is a Forms method that allows you to share a single source of an object/code between multiple Forms. It is Forms' way of implementing inheritance.
I also copied them to /forms/java directory too.This is not necessary. I recommend you delete the files you copied to the /forms/java directory. Forms will find the libraries if the .../forms directory is listed in your FORMS_PATH environment variable (see the default.env file). The /DevSuiteHome/forms directory should be the first directory listed in the FORMS_PATH variable.
Remove path?". So I selected Yes. But when I run form, I got FRM_40039: Cannot attach library webutil while opening form ......".The fact that you are getting this error indicates that the /forms directory is NOT part of the FORMS_PATH.
If I choose No to keep the hard code path, then if I deploy the form to testing server or production server, it will become problem! Right? How to solve this?Double-check to ensure it is listed. The variable entry should look something like:
FORMS_PATH=D:\DevSuiteHome_1\forms;<any other directories you want to be part of your path seperated by ";">Hope this helps,
Craig B-)
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Why can't I open word docs from mail anymore?

Am on 10.8.2 on Macbook Air and doc and docx attachments tell me to choose application to open the doc with and won't open when I choose "Word"
These used to be opened automatically by Word, not I have to manually choose Pages as the only option
Am I missing something?

Csound1 wrote:
Andy Mt P wrote:
Don't see how I can choose the file from within Word as it's not saved anywhere?
I have now discovered if I drag the file from mail on to the WORD icon in the doc it will open....seems much clumsier than the old option of clicking on the file to open it
Opening attached pics seems to require the same action as well using iphoto.
A bit of a step back in my opinion....
Save the word file from the email to your Mac (have you never saved an attachment before)?
Post back when you can do as I asked you to.
And remember that we are trying to find out what is wrong, don't be so snappy!
haha...point taken. Wasn't feeling 'snappy' when I typed it, not intended as such...!
If I save it somewhere as you suggested I can then open it
also, as I mentioned if I drag the doc onto WORD in the dock it opens that way as well

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