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MacBook with VoiceOver and Pages conversion to Word question. (self.Blind)
submitted by 4humans
Is there a shortcut to convert/ export pages files to word? Can Siri or voice control do this? Or even a way to save as word by default? Alternatively is there a free way to get the Word app other than the online version?
Fridux 3 points 2y ago
You can paste the following AppleScript in Script Editor, save it to a file, and then add it as a Keyboard Commander shortcut with VoiceOver Utility:
tell application "VoiceOver" to say (("Saving " & name of front document of application "Pages" as text) & ".docx") using "Samantha"
tell application "Pages" to export front document to (path to documents folder as string) & name of front document of application "Pages" & ".docx" as Microsoft Word
The script above makes VoiceOver announce the name of the file it's saving, which is based on the name of the document itself, and saves it to the default Documents directory for Pages in Microsoft Word format.
There's also another way to add a shortcut to MacOS which is by creating a quick action service in Automator and adding that service as a shortcut in System Preferences, but doing it via VoiceOver is much much simpler.
tell application "VoiceOver" to say (("Saving " & name of front document of application "Pages" as text) & ".docx") using "Samantha"
tell application "Pages" to export front document to (path to documents folder as string) & name of front document of application "Pages" & ".docx" as Microsoft Word
The script above makes VoiceOver announce the name of the file it's saving, which is based on the name of the document itself, and saves it to the default Documents directory for Pages in Microsoft Word format.
There's also another way to add a shortcut to MacOS which is by creating a quick action service in Automator and adding that service as a shortcut in System Preferences, but doing it via VoiceOver is much much simpler.
CosmicBunny97 2 points 2y ago
The quickest way I’ve found out is File and then press E for Export. I don’t know if there’s any other versions of Word unfortunately.
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
No file and then find export and enter it’s pretty easy as if. Very quick.
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