No more .doc conversion in iPad Pages 2.0 / iOS 7?

I have an ongoing need to e-mail Pages documents from my iPad as Word (.doc) files to recipients who cannot work with Word 2007 (.docx) files. That was never a problem before, when Pages for iPad used the .doc format, which any MS Word user could see and edit, regardless of generation. But now under iOS 7 Pages 2.0 has only the .docx export option, a serious problem for my situation. Is there a way I can get Pages to (re-)allow me to export as .doc files?

I do not think that pages exports any of the old .doc formats anymore. .docx is the current format.
Two things I can think of.
Your recipients can be instructed on how to download microsofts docx conversion apps. Then when the recipient opens a docx file they will be asked if they want to convert it. They click on yes and the file is converted to .doc.
Other option is for you to do the conversion on your computer then send the .doc file from there.
Maybe someone else will come up with a better answer.

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