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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 1176422" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>The thing is, nobody but Microsoft really understands the MS Word format. So <em>only</em> Word can really save a document in Word format.</p><p></p><p>When you use an app like Bean or OpenOffice and save your only copy of the on-screen document as a Word doc, your original file is lost. It's gone. All you have is the format-converted version. <a href="http://www.bean-osx.com/Word97.html" target="_blank">Bean's own developers warn you that using MS formats may result in lost formatting data</a>.</p><p></p><p>Pages, at least, does not try to disguise what is going on when you export a document in Word format.</p><p></p><p>From my perspective, it's unfortunate that some people buy Pages when they want to work with Word documents. Pages is not Word. It has some basic Word import and export features, which can be very useful, but that is not the same as full Word compatibility. If you need Word, do yourself a favor and buy a copy of Word 2011.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 1176422, member: 4134"] The thing is, nobody but Microsoft really understands the MS Word format. So [i]only[/i] Word can really save a document in Word format. When you use an app like Bean or OpenOffice and save your only copy of the on-screen document as a Word doc, your original file is lost. It's gone. All you have is the format-converted version. [url=http://www.bean-osx.com/Word97.html]Bean's own developers warn you that using MS formats may result in lost formatting data[/url]. Pages, at least, does not try to disguise what is going on when you export a document in Word format. From my perspective, it's unfortunate that some people buy Pages when they want to work with Word documents. Pages is not Word. It has some basic Word import and export features, which can be very useful, but that is not the same as full Word compatibility. If you need Word, do yourself a favor and buy a copy of Word 2011. [/QUOTE]
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