Using Word on Pages- formatting?!?!

Hey, I am using a PC at uni so saving my files as Word, but then opening this Word doc on pages, but always saving as a Word doc. I first had trouble with Endnote in that every time I referenced at uni, then used my Mac, then went back to PC it was recognising it as a new file- as in when I referenced again it started the library again. I solved this problem by saving it "unformatted" before using my PC. Now I have a new problem, but I think its along the same lines, as I don't think you can add captains and cross-reference figures on Pages, I have to do this on the PC, but the same thing happens, I used my Mac, and then when I go back to Word, the captains and cross-references I had added the previous time are not been recognised, and I have to start from figure 1 again... Very annoying!! But I think it is similar to the Endnote problem in that it is recognising it as a new file (not sure why as I am only opening it in Pages, but as a Word doc?!!?). Anyway does anybody know how to solve this? Is there a captain/cross-reference tool on Pages? Or is there a way to save them on Word as ''unformatted''?!?
Thanks, Lorna

You got the standard behaviour.
Re read carefully these extracts from the iWork Web page. You won't read anything saying that what you get when opening a Word doc or exporting in Word format is supposed to be a clone of the original.
I know that some vendors said that Pages is able to clone Word documents but they are simply liars.
Switching from Word for PC and Word for mac introduce differences so, it's not really surprising that Pages introduce some of them too.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 16 juillet 2010 22:37:27

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