Help with "Pages" app, please?

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06-13-2011, 10:29 PM
lstrom2

If that is the case, I just wasted my money on this device and app

I receive updates daily from Westlaw with court cases as Word attachments in .doc form, which this app is supposed to be able to open. This is the main reason I bought the iPad, so I could work from anywhere.

Anyone have any other solutions?

If not, thanks for the attempts to assist, everyone.
06-13-2011, 10:35 PM
maliu

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Originally Posted by lstrom2

I receive updates daily from Westlaw with court cases as Word attachments in .doc form, which this app is supposed to be able to open. This is the main reason I bought the iPad, so I could work from anywhere.

Anyone have any other solutions?

If not, thanks for the attempts to assist, everyone.

Try Goodreader, it's been able to open up everything I've thrown at it including attachments that my PC at work couldn't open.
06-13-2011, 11:27 PM
DQ

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Originally Posted by lstrom2

Tim, that is what I am doing, but it won't work, says format is wrong. But it is a ".doc" format. What am I doing wrong?

Is the file .doc or .docx? Pages will not open the latter. You have to convert to earlier version.
06-14-2011, 12:05 AM
lstrom2

Definitely .doc format

I will go look at good reader, and thanks.
06-16-2011, 01:55 PM
lstrom2

Problem solved - here is the solution

My brilliant techie brother in law figured out that even though the Westlaw MS Word .doc attachments were ".doc." they were rich text format. Changing the tail of the file name from .doc to rtf allowed Goodreader to open them. If anyone wants to be walked through this process, let me know; it takes a couple of quick steps, but at least it works.

Thanks to all who assisted. :)
10-12-2011, 03:26 PM
LWYC

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Originally Posted by Tim SPRACKLEN

You need the very latest update to Pages to be able to do this. If you have this latest update, then press and hold any document in the My Documents view until they start to jiggle, then drag one 'jiggling' document over another and release and a folder will be created containing those two documents. You can drag other documents in the same way. Press the Home button when you've finished. The procedure is the same as for creating desktop folders...

Tim

But can you create a folder within a folder? I tried and it doesn't seem to work.
10-12-2011, 06:59 PM
twerppoet

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Originally Posted by LWYC

But can you create a folder within a folder? I tried and it doesn't seem to work.

No, one level of folders is all you get.

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