Export pages on iPhone 4 to Word document

I have an 8GB iPhone 4 running iOS 6 that I got free from my phone company when the iPhone 5 came out.  I spent a lot of time trying to find a good word processor, and came to realize free ones weren't going to cut it.  My daughter gave me an iTunes card for Christmas, and I used it to get Pages.  I have used it to make a few documents in idle times, making notes, and usually I just look at the notes, and write them into a new document on my Windows laptop.  Now, I have something I have completely drafted in Pages, and every attempt to transfer it to my laptop into Word format ends up with 10 pages of gobbledegook.  I do just as directions, you tube videos, and this very support site say, and my little 5 page short story turns into 10 pages of useless data.  I've tried opening it with Word, Open Office, and Libre.  I've even tried using Notepad, and Wordpad.  Notepad at least gave me the body of my actual story, but I had to go through several pages of garbage data to finally see it, and I'll have to do some serious editing to make it something I can use.
What is going on?  I see iPhone and iPad demos, where they simply do exactly as I did (Share and Print>Copy to iTunes>Word), and they get their files.  What am I doing wrong?
To be honest, I cannot wait until my next upgrade.  I'm getting a phone that can play better with others.  Apple is too closed, and insular for me.  I need to be able to use my machine, not just follow it's instructions.  This has been my first smartphone, and it has been fun, but I need to take off the training wheels.  Until then, I want my files in a usable format.  HELP!!!

AAAaaand still nothing. 
Okay, a little update for me: i updated to iOS 7 (and despite severeal reviews I've read, it actually runs pretty darn good on this older model phone, better than iOS 6 in most ways, only a video lag issue that I was expecting from the reviews, but not as bad as many claimed, and everything else the reviewers were wrong about), and today got it's bugfix update.  Mainly I just wanted to see if the itunes transfer of Pages files to Word files suddenly decided to start working.  Nope, it didn't.
Another thing I've tried, before and after the update, is e-mailing the files rather than transferring through itunes.  It was a vain hope, but my thought was maybe itunes was corrupting the files in some way.  Well, my story is a little longer now, and the 10 pages of gobbledegook is now 15.  E-mail made no difference.
One thing I have not mentioned is exporting the files in .pdf format, that has always worked beautifully.  Problem is, I can't easily edit those files.  The easiest way is to copy and paste the body of the document into a word file, but after that I have to reset all of the carriage returns, and some spacings (mostly the double space after a period, exclamation point, or question mark; it gets turned to a single space).
This is why I want the export to .doc to work, so I don't have to constanly re-edit after just switching the file between computers (i do regard the iphone as a computer with a phone built in).  Why doesn't it work?  Can it be fixed?  How?  Of the, at this point, 79 views, someone must have an idea of what to do?

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