Microsoft Office is the quintessential office suite worldwide regardless of the equipment used to carry out these functions. However, Apple has a completely free package of applications among which is Pages, which would be the alternative to Word. If you want to start using the Apple suite and want to transfer your Word files to Pages, we show you how. But we will also show you how to do the reverse way and pass documents from Pages to Word. All this from your own Mac.
Transfer Word documents to Pages
Natively, Microsoft Word allows to save the documents in old formats of this program, in PDF and other interesting formats. However, it is not possible to save it as a Pages document. That is why you must resort to third-party tools for this. On the internet there are many pages that allow you to make these conversions and the one that we will show you in the following steps is one of them. It is not something sponsored or anything similar, but we consider that it is a page that works well, but you can use any other that you know.
- Open the Zamzar page to convert .DOC (Word) documents into Pages.
- Click the “Add files” button .
- Select the document or documents you want to transform.
- Make sure the “pages” format is set in the converter.
- Click on “Convert now”.
- Wait for the files to finish converting and click “Download” to save them in a folder on your Mac.
It is that simple to transfer Word documents to Pages, as well as free of charge so you will not have to download any payment on your computer. We hope that in the future Microsoft will open the door for users to be able to make these conversions from their application, but at the moment these pages are the most effective methods for this.
Go from Pages to Word on Mac
This process is probably the easiest of all. We also find online converters or third-party tools that allow you to do it, but there is a native method with which to export your documents from Pages to Word without further complications and quickly. To do this you must follow these steps:
- Open the Pages document you want to change format.
- In the upper bar click on File.
- Go to “Export to” and click on “Word”.
- Choose now if you want to set a password to access the document.
- Regardless of whether you have chosen a password or not, click “Next”.
- Choose the name you want to give the document and save it in a folder.
It should be noted, in case you did not know, that by following these steps you can also convert a Pages document to other formats such as PDF or EPUB, among others. We understand that perhaps it is annoying to have to go one by one if there are several Pages documents that you want to pass to Word, so in case you want to convert many documents at the same time, we recommend using a converter such as the aforementioned Zamzar.
