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Sharing and Saving Pages Documents and Saving Internet Images to iPhoto

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Sharing and Saving Pages Documents and Saving Internet Images to iPhoto

By: Chris Kerins
Published: Thursday, April 16, 2009
Categories: My First Mac Q&A

Welcome to My First Mac's Q&A column. It is said that Macs are easier to use, but they are still complex in their own right. Here are a few questions we have received lately from readers like you. Sometimes we reformat the questions for clarity and presentation.

This week Chris answers your questions about Sharing and Saving Pages documents and saving internet photos to iPhoto.

		I wanted to send a Pages document via email to my workplace, but didn't know how. I ended up exporting it to my desktop, opening a new message in email, then making it an attachment. How can I do it directly from Pages? (I'm used to seeing a "Send to..." option under the File menu. I didn't see that here.)

		There isn't a ready made way, but like in many apps, you can drag the little file icon in the title bar to your Mail icon on your dock and do it that way. See the image below. And Save first.

		I will open a document in Pages, make corrections etc, and then try to save the document by hitting File>Save but what happens is that I have to re-save the file as a copy. What is up with that? Can't I just make changes to a document without having to create 100 different copies??? Is this happening because it's a .doc file that I'm dealing with?

		iWork doesn't work natively in .doc or .docx format. Those formats are Proprietary to Microsoft. Once you save it as a Pages file, you just work on that one as you would normally. You can always Export it as a .doc later if you choose.

		I know that this will most likely be a "Duh" question but I seriously have not been able to figure out how to copy internet pics and import them into my iphoto. It's not like PC Windows.

		Well, I'm not sure how it works on PCs, but the answer is fairly straightforward. Right-click on the image in Safari and the select Add Image to iPhoto Library from the pop up menu. That's it!

You can send in your questions via the Contact page or email us at editor[AT]myfirstmac[DOT]com. Because of the volume of email we receive, we can't reply to each and every question personally. We read each question that comes in and reply to the ones that fit the scope of this column. We also save some questions for future columns.

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I no longer get the the "Add Image to iPhoto library" option when I right-click on a photo. This is a recent occurrence. How can I restore that option?

Colleen
09/04/2010 at 07:03 AM