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I love Pages. However, I am writing my dissertation and my committee needs this monster document in Word, so here I am. I have Word 2010 for mac. And, I have spent hours and hours trying to figure out what to click, unclick, reset, or switch to make this program behave.
I'm a smart girl, but every single time I save my document and close it, all formatting is lost--all tabs, all italics, etc. Since this is a dissertation it has to be in a certain format and there are a lot of tabs and heading styles. I don't know whether to cry or scream. It doesn't matter whether I save it as a doc file or docx. Same thing. When I re-open the file it will show the tracked changes as the complete opposite of what I had. For instance--if the heading was centered it will show a tracked change that I made it left-justified at the time I closed the file. (So if I hit the "reject" X, it will go back to the center...most of the time.)
Oh! And the headers--I have to reset the headers every ten (five?) minutes. They will suddenly change from 1 inch margins on the top to 3 or 4 inches--just out of nowhere.
Does anyone know what on earth is going on? I am about to have to hang it up and type this on a PC. (I am desperate.) Thanks for any suggestions!
I'm a smart girl, but every single time I save my document and close it, all formatting is lost--all tabs, all italics, etc. Since this is a dissertation it has to be in a certain format and there are a lot of tabs and heading styles. I don't know whether to cry or scream. It doesn't matter whether I save it as a doc file or docx. Same thing. When I re-open the file it will show the tracked changes as the complete opposite of what I had. For instance--if the heading was centered it will show a tracked change that I made it left-justified at the time I closed the file. (So if I hit the "reject" X, it will go back to the center...most of the time.)
Oh! And the headers--I have to reset the headers every ten (five?) minutes. They will suddenly change from 1 inch margins on the top to 3 or 4 inches--just out of nowhere.
Does anyone know what on earth is going on? I am about to have to hang it up and type this on a PC. (I am desperate.) Thanks for any suggestions!