Batch instead of doc pages conversion

Hi friends,

I decided to go completely of the word Pages (and also Excel to numbers etc.). It has been a long time coming, hampered mainly by the inconvenience of having a large existing collection of Word documents that I need to save to the format of Pages (and then manually delete the original Word file) then, or don't forget to export them to Word.

So my request is simple: can someone help me with an Applescript or Automator workflow that I can point to a file or a selection of Word documents (or even a more containing Word documents and other files), which will be open them in Pages, save them up as Pages and then delete or ideally move to a folder on the desktop the original Word file?

Unfortunately, my experience with Applescript and Automator is limited. I'm willing to learn, but I am writing here in the hope that someone might have tried this before. It seems strange that it is not a tool of migration there for people willing to engage fully in Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Apparently a lot of tools exist for ing the other way, but nothing for people so impressed with iWork they want to completely drop MS Office.

The two really important parts of what I would be a lie to do is from the Save in place (so I don't need to re - drop everything) and move the original Word doc to a folder somewhere (so I can find it again if something had gone wrong and archive or delete it easily later).

Any suggestions or pointers appreciated!

Tom

Tom,

Move your entire collection of Word to Pages document is a very bad idea, based on three years of posts in the support Pages community.

  • Pages is not a clone of Word and lacks most of the functionality of Word of professional level you will soon run out.
  • Pages is not guaranteed to open or export documents Word accurately with some features do not exist in both applications.
  • Pages never will allow you to open, edit and save Word documents in their native document architecture. Everything, including export is an exercise in translation of cross-your-fingers.
  • Pages will simply not open Word documents that are too old or too inconsistent.
  • No other application on the planet cannot open Pages v5 documents.

Recommended alternative: 2016 Office for Mac.

There are answers here to simply download the free LibreOffice, which is a replacement for MS Office suite. Even with manuals PDF LibreOffice, there is not a rapid mapping of your skills of Word/Excel for LibreOffice Writer and Calc. It has some of the best compatibility of Word and Excel documents, after these two applications Microsoft themselves. But there is a learning curve 'tax' to become proficient in LibreOffice, who skip a lot in their recommendation of it.

It is a relatively simple exercise of AppleScript coding to batch convert Word into Pages documents, but the challenge you face is that Pages will throw a warning dialog box whenever it encounters a Word document with import warnings or errors. When this occurs, it interrupts the script which may intervene in the process of importing Pages.

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