Change word folder to a pages folders

I have the AppleScript code written that allows you to select a folder containing Word documents and convert them into Pages documents in the same folder. You would need to copy/paste the code into Apple's Script Editor and run it. Interested?

The AppleScript solution that I have does automatically on a folder of Word documents what you are doing manually. You just select the folder name and it systematically opens and saves the Word documents in that folder as Pages documents.

Pages will open Microsoft Word .doc/.docx/RTF format documents with a progress bar while it converts them into Pages documents. The Word documents are then closed and remain unchanged. You right-click on the Word document and choose Open With > Pages in that secondary Finder menu.

What Pages will not open:

1. Damaged word documents
2. OpenDocument (ISO 26300) .odt documents
3. Word documents that use features unsupported in Pages and cannot be converted.
4. Word Perfect documents
5. PDF documents
6. Microsoft Word ML (XML format) documents from the early 2000s.
7. Word documents that were created by Word 6 in the mid-to-late 1990s. (too old).

MS Word documents use internal styling attributes not used by Pages and so unless copying the Word content onto the clipboard results in a format that Pages can accept (RTF) from the clipboard, it may or may not handle the Word styling properly on a paste.

It would require AppleScript coding and a decision on whether you want the resulting Pages documents in the same folder as the Word documents (simpler) or in a different recipient folder.

The storage consequences of using my script to convert Word .docx documents to Pages documents… or no script at all, and just opening the Word document in Pages and saving it as a Pages document are as follows:

I have a one-page Word document with three paragraphs of text in it. It is 20K on disk. When opened in Pages v14.2 and saved as a Pages document, it sees a 4300% enlargement to 880K. That same Word document, if opened in LibreOffice and saved as an OpenDocument ( ISO26300 standard) .odt document expands to 37K.

If I take the resulting 880K Pages document from above, and because it is just text content, open it in LibreOffice 24.8.3, it will be an 8K Word document when saved in that format. That is a 10,900% decrease in file size.

Pages has nothing to do with web-based HTML/CSS/JavaScript coding or functionality. It is a word processing application.

The ability to script Pages to deal with Word documents requires Apple's AppleScript code running on macOS.