How to Upload a Pages Document to Google Docs

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Many teachers accept created documents and files in programs like Pages, Keynote, Give-and-take, Powerpoint, Excel, etc. I was recently asked if there is a mode to "convert" these files to utilize with Google.
YES!

In this post I will walk y'all through turning your non-google file into a Document, Presentation, or Spreadsheet. I'll as well show you how to plow on (or off) the new Drive and set your uploads to catechumen automatically.

If you are working with Pages, Keynote, or Numbers '09 y'all volition offset by converting to Give-and-take, PowerPoint, or Excel.
If you are working with Word, PowerPoint, or Excel skip downwardly to the Uploading Files & Automated Conversion section beneath.

Converting iWork Files (Pages, Keynote, Numbers)
Pages, Keynote, or Numbers '09

In gild to use these files we need to beginning in Pages, Keynote, or Numbers. So...

Open Pages, Keynote, or Numbers.
Open up the file you want to catechumen.
In the main menu select File and Save every bit...

If needed, click the pointer button to expand the salvage window.

Cheque the box at the bottom of the window to Salve a re-create every bit: Word Certificate (or PowerPoint or Excel)

Click the Salvage push.
(Repeat with equally many files as you choose to catechumen.)

Uploading Files & Automatic Conversion
The next step is the same for uploading Word, PowerPoint, or Excel files. And so...

Open your Chrome browser.

Become to http://bulldoze.google.com and login (if you demand to).
Under the settings push click on Settings.

Hither we can choose to have files convert to Google Docs as they upload or leave them alone. The conversion works with MS Part files (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

If you lot check the box your files volition exist automatically converted to the new format (Google editable). If yous leave the box unchecked your files will upload and remain "untouched" - you can preview, print, download, and share them, but you won't be able to do whatever editing online.

**I prefer to convert the files on upload (saves a later stride), and then I will bank check the box. If y'all prefer to leave the files unconverted, you can still edit them, but Google will need to make a copy for you to edit - the original remains untouched. I like to have the document uploaded and converted so I but have a single copy .

Subsequently you lot make your decision click the Done button in the upper right corner of the window.
You lot can always change your mind virtually this.

Finishing up...
Navigate to the folder where yous would like to store the file. (To create a new folder click the New button.)
Click the scarletNew button on the left side of the page.

Select File upload from the list.
Next select the file or files you would like to upload. You tin can select a single file or multiple files to upload.

Google volition upload the file and add it to your Drive.

*Notice I have one copy of the original - with the green Ten icon - and 1 converted document - dark-green icon with a table. I intentionally uploaded one time without converting and once with conversion to demonstrate the process. Yous will only go one file - either converted or original.

If you turned on the Convert Uploads choice you volition exist able to double click on the uploaded document and begin editing (if it was a Give-and-take, PowerPoint, or Excel file).
If you chose not to convert the file double-clicking will open a preview of the file (if it is a supported file format) and permit you to view, print, download, or share the file. In the image beneath I have an unconverted Excel document, so the Open with... option offers Google Sheets every bit a choice.

Selecting this will create a re-create of the file and open information technology in an editable Google document.

Merely if y'all have a lot of files to convert...

We have tools available to catechumen Pages, Numbers, and Keynote files to MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that tin can be uploaded and converted to Google files. When you convert the files, y'all are going to come across some bug. The directions for use is similar for all iii file types.

Download the file for converting Pages, Numbers, or Keynote. ( Below these directions. )
Unzip the file and then you lot have something that looks like this:
Close any open windows you may have on your screen. If you have Pages, Numbers, or Keynote open, quit those programs also.
Open the file past right-clicking or control-clicking on the file and choosing Open. Simply double-clicking the file will not allow yous to open it on some versions of Mac Os.
As the prompt at the superlative of the window states, select the folder containing the files you lot wish to catechumen.

Click the Choose button in the lower correct corner of the selection window.
Wait. The program will open up the files in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote and do the conversion - you may find the documents flashing upwardly on the screen in forepart of you.
When the process is complete y'all will either run across a window popular open up to tell you that it is finished and where the files are located, or yous may only come across finder bouncing on the dock. If you click on the bouncing finder icon you lot will meet the pop-upwardly window. The window automatically closes later fifteen seconds.
Yous volition find your files in a folder inside the location you chose to convert. For instance, if I chose a binder called "Mike'due south Pages Docs" I would await in that folder and find a new folder chosen WordDocs. Within the WordDocs folder I would find my converted files.

The files are bachelor at these links (Note At that place ARE TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THIS FILE):
10.seven - Keynote - https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B0vCSQ-q2GqzeHVFWGhXS1UxemZfMnhXTURwUjduemRFb2Yw
x.vii - Pages - https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B0vCSQ-q2GqzTEpSZy12b0VVbWg2bV9iNzBxSUpLa0k0X2xz
ten.seven - Numbers - https://docs.google.com/uc?consign=download&id=0B0vCSQ-q2GqzNWcyWldvNksxQlBlWVc3bzlEYUkwNm9jR05R
(FOR OS 10 10.viii+)
10.8+ - Keynote - https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B0vCSQ-q2GqzTGxzMXRrUGZRdXM
ten.8+ - Pages - https://docs.google.com/uc?consign=download&id=0B0vCSQ-q2GqzdzFMeFpIdThhRms
ten.eight+ - Numbers - https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B0vCSQ-q2GqzamwxU2Y4ZHlJeWM