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Apple pages help

TheOldMole Sep 13 2009 09:16 AM

Any Mac users here who can help me? A few students have submitted papers to me in .pages format, which I can't open. Can I just tell them to Save As word documents, or as .rtf? Is it as simple as that? I have students who are technologically challenged.

RealityChuck Sep 13 2009 10:36 AM Re: Apple pages help

They may already be in a format Word will read. (On a Mac, the extension is not the format). Rename the file to change .pages to .doc, .docx (if you have Office 2007) or .rtf and see if it works. Tell the Mac users when they save a file, they need to add .doc to the filename.

TheOldMole Sep 13 2009 05:17 PM Re: Apple pages help

tried .doc and .rtf but no luck.

RealityChuck Sep 13 2009 07:23 PM Re: Apple pages help

Well, you can't tell the software created a Mac file by the extension. It could be from any Mac word processor. I'd contact the student and have him resend in .rtf or some other format.

TheOldMole Sep 14 2009 07:29 AM Re: Apple pages help

The problem there is that sometimes you get a student who says "I don't know how to do that." If the student is using a PC I can talk her through it, screen by screen, but since I don't use a Mac, I don't know how to do that.

metirish Sep 14 2009 07:33 AM Re: Apple pages help

Just give in and pay the $5000 for the Mac

RealityChuck Sep 14 2009 09:05 AM Re: Apple pages help

It's pretty much the same on a Mac. Ask what software she's using (I'm surprised it's not some version of Word), then tell her to select "Save as" and make sure it's in Word format with a .doc extension.