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I am having problems with docx files not changing, unless it creates another document of pages files. It won't allow to be saved under another docx file. These are old documents that keeps creating another file. Some are archived, which could be part of the problem. Hoping the Pages App developers can help with this issue. Better yet, is there a solution by someone that can make it easy?
iMac 21.5″, macOS 13.6
Pages opens Word documents as a read-only translation process, and if successful, results in a new Pages document and an unchanged, closed Word document. As Pages is not a Word clone, it cannot directly edit or save a Word document, nor translate every feature in that document.
If you need that native Word document editing capability, then you should be using MS Word or a competent Microsoft Word clone.
These public communities are exclusively supported by fellow Apple users. No Apple employees participate here, nor will see your hint of fixing something in Pages that is not designed into the application.
Apple's design goal was to allow it to open and translate a Word document, not edit it. Apple is not competing with any other word-processing application vendor, nor was it a design goal to create a Word clone application.
Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, and SoftMaker TextMaker are all capable of opening MS Word documents in their native document format without translation, providing one the ability to edit and save them.
Very good explanation. I will use a Word document. I am surprised that developers created an App that cannot be edited. Thanks for the help.
Pages App issue.
