

Pages' AppleScript and Automator dictionaries don't have commands for such a conversion. There is no method to batch-convert files from Pages to Word. It simply changes the encoding that it uses for sending the files via email. "Send Windows-Friendly Attachments" does not convert files from one type to another, and you probably don't want Apple Mail (or any other application) performing such a conversion without telling you about it. We'll leave aside that it sounds like you have violated the EULA for iWork in associating someone else's Apple ID with your grandmother's new Mac. Keynote to PowerPoint and Numbers to Excel have similar issues. If she receives Word documents with macros, she will not be able to use or modify the macros. If the documents have a lot of formatting, they are likely to lose the formatting in the conversion. My main work computers are all Mac variants, from MacBook Airs (primary) to 27' i7 iMacs (secondary), and all systems are running OS X 10.7.3 (Lion) with either 4GB or 8GB of RAM. Pages can open Word documents, and it can save as a Word document as well, but this conversion is limited. I recently completed the MS Office 2011 Home and Business update to Service Pack 2 (SP2) and wanted to provide everyone with an update. If your grandmother works with people who use Office, the best solution is for her to use Office:Mac. docx when she needs to send it to someone. Continue as she is doing now, and convert each file individually from.You cannot set the default file format in Pages to be a. To do this, your grandmother will have to use "save as" every time she saves the file, because "save" will simply save a. There is no easy way to convert iWork documents to Office and then send them via email.
