Pages - Opening a Document from Another Application

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Opening a Document from Another Application

You can create a new Pages document by importing a document created in another
application, such as Microsoft Office 2007 or AppleWorks. Pages can import the
following file formats: plain text (.txt), Rich Text Format (.rtf and .rtfd), AppleWorks 6
word processing (.cwk), and Microsoft Word (.doc).

As much as possible, Pages preserves the original document’s text, colors, layout, and
other formatting options.

From Microsoft Word, you can import styles, tables, inline and floating objects,
charts, footnotes and endnotes, bookmarks, hyperlinks, lists, sections, change tracking,
and more.

From AppleWorks, you can import word processing documents only.

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Chapter 2

Creating, Opening, and Saving a Document

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Chapter 2

Creating, Opening, and Saving a Document

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Here are ways to import a document:
Drag the document to the Pages application icon. A new Pages document opens, and

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the contents of the imported document appear.
In Pages, choose File > Open, select the document, and then click Open.

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If you can’t import a document, try opening the document in another application and
saving it in a format Pages can read, or copy and paste the contents into an existing
Pages document.

You can also export Pages documents to Microsoft Word (.doc), PDF, Rich Text Format
(.rtf and .rtfd), and plain text (.txt). See “Exporting Pages Documents to Other File
Formats” on page 256 for details.