[adamm321]

Hello...

Spent ALL day yesterday moving and converting files. My eyes are starting to glaze over and my arms are about to fall off. I must be doing something wrong. I moved the documents over to the Apple, but they are not in the new form until I open them in pages and save as. Plus selecting file icons...I was doing what I used to do on windows, clicking one file in a row then clicking on the last one in the row with the shift button down to select the whole row. That is not working on the MBPro. I tried looking it up in Help and those were the directions too. So I ended up having to individually click each file, open in Pages, save as to...select destination, close the file, go back and roll the old file into the trash. Phew! Plus, I set the folders I as working with to arrange according to name and then when I add another folder or file, it just adds it to the bottom of the folder and is not adding it alphabetically and maintaining it that way. I have to keep rearranging it.

Please tell me I have missed something easy to do? [g]

adam

[Yankee Rose]

Hi Adam: are all of your files Word files?

Because you are converting a Word file to a Pages file, yes it can be time consuming. Would it be easier for you to convert them as you need them? Just an idea ....

[adamm321]

Yes, it has been very time consuming, but at the moment, I at least have most of my documents on the MBPro and I am leaving them alone until I finish moving everything else off the old Dell and taking care of what to do with the old machine to clean it up. I'm thinking about returning Pages and getting Office. Haven't made up my mind yet. Not that it will change anything as far as time in converting the documents I suppose.

Also got my printer installed on Monday! Three and a half hours between Apple and Canon tech support to get it working wirelessly with the new computer but it will be worth it once I figure out how to work it. [g] Another manual to read. *sigh*

Well...back to converting/moving the last of the wma files on the Dell. Thanks Rose

:-)

[kayote]

Here's a script to go the other way (pages->word), maybe you can modify it?
http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2006/11...uments-to.html

This page has the barebones of a script to go the direction you want, but not complete yet:
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/.../t-272893.html (and is the source of the other two links I'm posting)

http://www.dataviz.com/products/macl...lp_search_land is a commercial program if you expect to be doing this frequently.