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I'm going to be purchasing a new MacBook Pro in the next few weeks, so I stopped by the Apple Store at The Grove to check whether Pages reformats Word .docs.  Upon importing one of my three archaeological research papers, which consist of text and hundreds of images, Pages reformatted the entire document.  Short of going through and resizing the images, is there a way of importing a Word .doc into Pages so it does not reformat my documents, as I'd really like to dump Word.

Tom, thanks for the reply.  Tried the 'Fresh' & 'Stable' versions of Open/LibreOffice, and both reformated my documents almost as much if not more so than 'Pages', on top of which the images are washed out, as compared to how they look in 'Word'.  I also couldn't find a way to print them as compressed .pdf files in Open/LibreOffice as I can in 'Word'.  For example, my 1st paper 'Orthostat, the Mound of the Hostages' is 24.5mb 'Word' .doc.  When printed as a .pdf, it's 38.7mb, whereas the compressed .pdf is 3.6mb, although the labeling on some of the images in the compressed files are slightly blurry.  The reason for compressing the files, is that no one wants to download a 146.2mb document, as in the case of my 3rd paper 'Petroglyphs, the Art of Ancient Landscapes', which when compressed is only 12.6mb.
You can see what I'm referring to as far as the images are concerned by viewing my papers on Academia.edu.
https://independent.academia.edu/SeanMoriarty
That being said, it's quite apparent I'm going to have to stick with 'Word' 2008, which I'm hoping is compatible with 'Mavericks' and Apple's next version of OS 10, 'Yosemite', otherwise I'm going to have to shell out another $100+ for Office 2011.

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