Word to Pages Conversion Page Sizing Off

Help! I have a paper due for school tomorrow. My professor has emailed me a 1 page Microsoft Word document. When I open it on my Mac, using Pages, it automatically makes it a 2 page document. Of course my paper can only be 1 page - using her exact template. Ive checked the font and the spacing, the size of the font, the margins. I cant figure out why its so off. I can see actually see that its a 1 page document using my company Windows machine - but obviously I am not allowed to do my homework and print from that machine. I need this to work on my Mac. Any ideas?

Erratic Spacing When Converting I Pad's Times New Roman to Word's Times New Roman
When I transfer a document formatted in Times New Roman font from my I pad's Pages to MS Word on my PC, the Word document appears in Times New Roman, but the line spacing is erratic and not uniform - even within the same paragraph ! These same line spacing problems do not occur when transferring Times New Roman Word documents to Ipad's Pages. (I send them by email.)
The erratic line spacing on the transferred MS Word document can be cleaned up in Word by selecting ALL and then choosing an Arial font. Once converted to Arial, if the Times New Roman font is chosen again, the spacing remains uniform and the document looks like the original.
I haven't tried this with other fonts, but I suspect that the line spacing problem is caused by the way that Apple converts its version of Times New Roman to Word's version of Times New Roman.
It is interesting that if I email a Times New Roman formatted document from Pages to my PC as a pdf file, the spacing looks normal while it is on the I pad but is erratic when viewed on the PC as a pdf file.

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Hello, I recently added the MS Office software (PowerPoint, Word, etc), and I'm having issues with converting back from MS Word to Pages. The document will convert from Word to Pages, but when I open it in Pages the font has changed and there are weird symbols in place of words. I actually prefer using Pages to write and edit my documents....
Please help! Thank you!

Yes, but the issue is that as long as I have Word on my computer, the documents that were once Pages documents are now in Word. Even when I reset the 'default' back to Pages, what the documents were orginally created in, the documents don't properly convert back to Pages. So, I'm wondering if I remove/uninstall MS Word all together if that will look after the problem...

Can you convert MS word to pages?

Can you convert MS word to pages?

I see you just list an iPad, but you've posted in the Pages for Mac forum, so I'm going to assume you are asking about Pages on a Mac. Pages can open most Word documents (probably Word 97 or later). The conversion most likely won't be perfect, so be prepared for some differences.

Undo auto-correction for typing particular words into Pages

This is starting to drive me nuts - whenever I type the word "march" Pages automatically capitalizes it to "March". Is there any way to stop it from capitalizing this word without turning off auto capitalizing?
I realise it may sound trivial but I am using this word a fair bit and it just takes up time having to constantly go back and correct it, then I have to be careful not to change the sentence or it auto-corrects back again.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

(K_Gal: This primarily addresses RHPC's issue, but does include some comments regarding yours)
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RHPC:
Yours is a different issue than that described in the initial post in this thread.
Pages has several auto-correction features, all set in the auto-correction pane of Pages Preferences. The two indicated by the arrows are the significant ones in this thread as started and in your hijack of this thread.
Fix capitalization (blue arrow) applies a format (CAPITAL or UPPER) to the initial letters of 'sentences' and words identified as 'proper nouns' (such as "March") in the spelling dictionary. It performs no action on 'words' that have been typed with initial capitals.
In the examples above, the first two lines were typed with 'Fix capitalization' unchecked. The second pair of lines were typed using exactly the same keystrokes as the first, but with 'Fix capitalization' checked. Note that both occurrences of 'will' are the same in each set.
"Automatically use spell checker suggestions" (red arrow) does precisely what it says: If a 'word' is not found in the spelling dictionary, the spell checker will make a 'best guess' and suggest that as a possible replacement. If the 'Automatically use…" box is checked, then Pages will immediately accept the first suggestion, replacing the 'questionable word' with the spell checkers first ('best') suggestion.
There are at least two solutions to this issue:
Uncheck the box and don't use auto-correction. (works for either of these issues)
Teach the spellchecker the correct spelling of the Polish name. (does not work in the case of march/March, which is part of the base dictionary)
To do this:
Go Pages (menu) > Preferences... Auto-Correction
Uncheck the "Automatically use…" box.
Close Preferences
Open a new Pages word processing document.
Type the Polish name.
Ensure that the spelling and capitalization is correct.
Right click on the name and choose Learn Spelling.
Go Pages > Preferences… Auto-Correction
Recheck the "Automatically use…" box
Close Preferences.
Done.
Pages (and other applications using the system's spell checker dictionary) will now recognize the spelling of this name and will not 'correct' it.
(K_Gal: Unfortunately, when I tried this on "march" the contextual menu did not include the Learn Spelling option , probably because the dictionary already 'knew' how to spell "March". I'd suggest using the Provide Pages Feedback item in the Pages message to report this to apple, and request a feature enhancement to the Fix capitalization feature.)
Regards,
Barry

In normal view, half the page disappears off right of screen. in full screen this does not happen. what can be done to correct the screen ratio for normal screen?

version 5 loaded on windows 7. all went well for a while. one day while using, ratio of normal screen doubled in width; i.e. half the page disappears off the screen to the right (on a wide screen). when full screen mode applied, ratio is fine. it only happens in normal view, which is the usually prefered option. I cannot determine any means within the program to resize the normal screen. nothing else is affected, only mozilla firefox in normal view. not that when program is opened from keyboard the page is correct for a moment, then enlarges the width with 1/2 page dissappearing.

This issue can be caused by the Babylon Toolbar 1.1.8 extension
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

I am changing from Word to Pages. I have created my custom template with all my styles etc and that is what comes up when I go for a New Document. Fine. How do I get it to use the same Custom Template when I use Pages to open a Word document?

I am changing from Word to Pages. I have created my custom template with all my styles etc and that is what comes up when I go for a New Document. Fine. How do I get it to use the same Custom Template when I use Pages to open a Word document?

The template is a document in itself, it is not applied to an existing document whether it is a Pages document or a Word document converted to a Pages document.
You would need to either copy and paste content, using existing styles, or apply the styles to the converted Word document.
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Have you actually tried to do it in a PC Version. Usually it’s the other way round. Usually something can be done with little effort in PC Version, and not in Mac version. Or is PIA to do in the Mac version. Adobe takes as little effort as possibly with the Mac version of any of their products. They and many companies still have the notion for anyone that wants to do serious work, you use a PC. Mac's are considered play toys.
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Dante font used in manuscript - when I try to save as a pdf document in Microsoft Word whole pages change their look, with wide gaps forming between certain paragraphs or sections. This does not happen with other fonts.

Dante font used in manuscript … when I try to save as a pdf document in Microsoft Word whole pages change their look, with wide gaps forming between certain paragraphs or sections. This does not happen with other fonts.

OK, we've got it!
What is happening is that when you use Microsoft's save as PDF in Word, the font isn't embedded even though the font is tagged to allow embedding. Furthermore, Microsoft doesn't properly put the font name into the PDF file such that Acrobat or Reader can readily find the font installed on your system such that the text can be properly displayed and/or printed. Acrobat and Reader attempt to display and/or print the text using a “substitution font” and of course, as they say, YMMV (“your mileage may vary”)!
I personally submitted the report of this problem (both the embedding and the font name problem) to Microsoft. They acknowledge the bug, tried a fix and provided me a build with it, but it wasn't right. Maybe they will ultimately fix it, maybe they won't. We don't know yet. We do know that if it is fixed, it will be fixed only for Office 2013 (problem occurs with all Office applications since they use the same PDF generation code) and thus such a fix won't help you.
Adobe Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Pro both provide an Adobe PDFMaker plug-in to Office applications (including full support for Office 2010) that adds an Acrobat Toolbar as well as a Save as Adobe PDF menu item. The resultant PDF file fully supports embedding of OpenType CFF, TrueType, and Type 1 fonts and in many other ways produces much superior PDF with a full range of PDF generation options not available with the Microsoft PDF. (Note that beginning with Office 2013, Microsoft does not support Type 1 fonts in Office documents at all, even for existing documents!) The Acrobat Office functions are widely used and respected in the end user community and whatever “issues” there are (all software has “issues” of some type - it is a matter of how many and how severe), you should be in much better shape for PDF production that with what you currently are using.
Good luck and let us know if this resolves your problems. (Note that you can download and install a free fully-functional 30 trial of Acrobat Pro to assure that it meets your needs! You can then buy a license and activate what you already have installed.)
- Dov

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Hi,
I just imported a text, I had originally written in MS Word, into Pages.
I'm just wondering why the document went from 31 pages in Word to 26 in Pages?
I checked everything and as far as I can tell, the fonts, sizes, spaces and page setup have all the same configurations.
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I'm trying to make the swap from Mac Word to Pages but the one thing that frustrates me so much to the point of not using Pages is the bullet point system.
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I've painstakingly inserted all the spacings from Word into Pages and saved it as a "style" but it just reverts back to the default positioning when I open up a new document and select my saved style.
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Yeah I get the font and formatting for the text copied no problem when copying but I'm talking about from scratch in a new document, I insert a bullet point and even when selecting my saved style, it just reverts back to the default.
I agree, massive pain. It is the only thing stopping me from making the full switch now iCloud Drive is getting close to Dropbox.
Am I a misguided fool for thinking there's a patch or modification of some description that can copy the default bullet spacings from Word and create a new style following them in Pages?
Thanks, James

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