Got a new MacBook Air, replacing a 7 year old same that had Microsoft Word for Mac on it. I’d like to use Pages now, and import some Word Docs. Even tho I look up this process online, the process gets bogged down after opening the app (Pages), then “open”, and then I can’t figure out how to navigate from that point, as the online tutelage doesn’t seem to apply. Anyone have suggestions? Thank you.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.7
You should be using Pages v14.3 in macOS Sonoma. If not, update it from the Mac App Store.
Pages is not an MS Word clone, so provided it can open and translate the Word document into a resulting Pages document, you are done with the Word document and working in Pages. To produce a Word document from Pages, it is a matter of File menu > Export To > Word > Save…
Pages does not autosave any document content until you manually invoke a save, whether that is an imported Word document, or a new blank document that you initially save with a proper document name.
If you are round-tripping Word documents to those who are using MS Word on other platforms, be that Mac or Windows, then you really should be using MS Word to open, edit, and save Word documents in their native document form. Apple does not guarantee the open or export translation process from Pages to be accurate.
See the current Pages for Mac documentation: Pages User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
I will try to follow your suggestions. Thank you very much for your insight.
Import docs from Word to Pages
