Then close Libreoffice, then open the Doc in Libreoffice and see if the problem you described is still present. Visit Step 2: Click Sign In Step 3: Here, sign in with your existing Apple ID or click Create Apple ID to create one. Ignore any warnings or message that may appear. Step 1: Open any browser on your desktop and open iCloud.

Then click file 'save as' when a save dialog box appears click the arrow where it says 'text' and then click on Word 2007-365 Docx. Next click 'select all' and change to your desired font, font size, sentence line spacing, etc. What you should see when it opens is your document in plain text. Then quit Pages, right click on the exported plain text Doc, click 'open with', scroll down to Libreoffice and click it. Then, when you are ready to send the document to a publisher, return to the original document in Pages and export it not as a Word Doc but as a plain text file to your desktop or some folder. As a precaution copy your document and put in a folder on your desktop where it will be safe. Libreoffice Writer will generally save Word documents that are much more likely to be compatible with Microsoft Word and display properly in Word than when exported from Pages and is more transparent and reliable on a Mac then is Microsoft Word (plus of course a whole lot cheaper). Download and install Libreoffice as was suggested by another post which is totally free. Compose your document in Pages as you understandably prefer in the normal way. There is one other thing you might try which is a bit cumbersome but may work for you.

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