I have moved to OS X, and although Microsoft's Office software is brilliant on Windows, on the Mac its usability leaves something to be desired compared to Apple's own counterparts (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) which, although not containing as many bells and whistles, still provide any features I need to use. So I now open all my existing.docx files in Pages (which can open it natively), where, once saved in the application, saves it to a.pages file by default.
Question: Q: Cannot save file in word for mac 2011 When I tried to save a word file, the system keep telling me 'this file is being used by another program, please save again' then the file name turned into something like 'Word Work File L_230232796.tmp' and I have to choose another name for the file. The document format that is compatible with Word 98 through Word 2004 for Mac and Word 97 through Word 2003 for Windows. Word Template (.dotx) Saves the document as an XML-based template that you can use to start new documents.
What is the easiest way then, to open.pages files on my Windows computers (ideally, a similar automatic process in the reverse)? Is there a downloadable Microsoft Word add-on (like ), or a third party Office add-on (whether free or paid), or some other nifty tool to one-click / auto-convert.pages files to.docx files in Windows? Yeah about the PDF 'Quick View' document in the folder of the ZIP-renamed.pages file thing - I don't know what makes the difference, but my Pages files don't have a PDF, but only (useless) JPEGs - see. It would definitely help things if there was some setting in Pages that changed that (I'm just using the latest version updated in Mavericks, whatever it is), but it seems that trick isn't useful (anymore?).if it were, one could pretty much write a vb script/.bat etc. To automate probably quite a lot of the needed conversion/extraction. – user78017 Jun 27 '14 at 7:54.
Yes, in most cases you should be able to open a file created on a Mac on your Windows computer. If you have the Mac version of a Windows program (such as Microsoft Office) it will likely save files in a format that can be read by your Windows computer (it will add the correct file extension). You can then transfer the file to your Windows computer and it should open up in the program assigned to that extension. You can transfer files between the two platforms using a CD, a USB drive, or a network connection. Another option is to upload the files to a web server from the Mac and then download them on your Windows computer.
If you do not have the Mac version of your Windows program you may still be able to save the file to a standard format that can be read on both platforms. For example, if you are using a word processing application on your Mac, it may allow you to save your document using Rich Text Format (RTF), which can be opened by many Windows word processing programs such as Microsoft Word.
Many document formats will be accessible across platforms. This includes many file formats designed for use on the internet, such as PDF documents and images saved using the GIF and JPEG formats. Some multimedia files may require you to download a free plug-in to play them on the other platform. This is the case with Quicktime movies created on the Mac (which require the free Quicktime Player to be installed on the Windows computer).