I download my school notes from their website but all of the notes are either in word or powerpoint format. How do I configure my computer to automatically convert these to pages and keynote so they open in those programs (if this is possible)? I use Google Chrome as my browser if that helps any.
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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 8:49 AM
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Highlight a known Word document in the Finder, highlight it & choose Get Info from the File menu. In the Get Info box, click the triangle next to "Open With." Click on this drop-down menu & choose Pages. If Pages is not a choice, choose "Other" & navigate to the Pages application. Now click the "Change" button under the text that asks if you want to open all documents like this with Pages. You can then double-click the Word documents & they will open in Pages. Note that the icon for the Word files will have a plain, white icon. Repeat with a PowerPoint document & change to Keynote.
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Question marked as Top-ranking reply User level: Level 8 41,619 pointsHighlight a known Word document in the Finder, highlight it & choose Get Info from the File menu. In the Get Info box, click the triangle next to "Open With." Click on this drop-down menu & choose Pages. If Pages is not a choice, choose "Other" & navigate to the Pages application. Now click the "Change" button under the text that asks if you want to open all documents like this with Pages. You can then double-click the Word documents & they will open in Pages. Note that the icon for the Word files will have a plain, white icon. Repeat with a PowerPoint document & change to Keynote.
Show more Less User level: Level 4 1,718 pointsIn addition to what Peggy wrote, and if she allows this:
This modifies the app to be open with, is not their conversion, which must be done within Pages itself, and Keynote respectively. These files cannot be converted directly, I do not know such a converter, as in the beautiful days of classic Mac OS.
Show more Less User level: Level 4 1,718 pointsI think my English is again bad: of course, but the initial question was ‘How do I configure my computer to automatically convert these to pages and keynote so they open in those programs (if this is possible)?’, s
o our colleague asked a method to CONVERT the files directly, before opening in Pages, so I warned him/her that conversion is not possible otherwise than WITHIN Pages / Numbers, i.e. after opening the files and importing them using the internal pasring engine of the application.
Therefore, what he/she wants is, in fact, a 3-step action:
- Using Info, instruct the system to open .doc and xls files with Pages and Numbers respectively
- Opening them with those apps
- Resaving them with the new format, as Pages and Numbers cannot handle the original format as the OpenOffice, LibreOffice and NeoOffice can do.
I think, therefore, I gave him/her the correct details in order to deal with such files in iWork.