How to open Ms Word documents and pages on Mac

This article is about how to open Ms Word documents and pages on Mac. If, for example, your office uses a PC but your family uses all Apple products, especially if you want to edit documents in both places. If you’ve created a document in Microsoft Word but want to edit it on a Mac computer, you’ll find that your Mac doesn’t come with Microsoft Word.

Instead, Apple’s built-in word processing software is called Pages. Although you can buy and download the Microsoft Office suite for your Mac computer, it is also easy to convert Word documents to pages, because the program is similar.

How to open Ms Word documents and pages on Mac

1. Open the page on your Mac computer.
2. Click File on the menu bar and select “Open“.
3. Find your Word document and click on it. Page will automatically convert the Word file into a new Page file (again, if the Word document has been sent, you can open it here and it will automatically start in Page).
4. After you finish editing a document and page, you’ll want to save it to your desktop if you want to keep a copy of the edited page file.

How to exit your page page in Microsoft word on Mac

1. To open a spreadsheet, click File in the menu bar.
2. Click on “Export to” and select “Word“.
3. If you name your file after the original version of Word, it will ask you if you want to replace the version on the desktop.
4. Click Replace.

You can always access your Word Document

Once done, you will have an updated version of the original .doc or .docx file that you can share and open in Microsoft Office.