Opening a pages document in Word

Hi there. I am mainly using Pages to edit documents that have been generated in Word by other computers. I have no problem opening and editing these files but when I am finished, is there a way of saving them so that I can email them back to the other computers (work colleagues using Word on PCs) so they can open them? The one document I have tried this with won't open on their computer.
Thanks.

Pages saves in its own format and you cannot change that. However, you can export as a .doc file so Word can read it. Note: depending on how/what formatting has been done the document you export into .doc may or may not look the same in Word as it did in Pages.

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Can you open in Pages documents that were created in a 2004 version of Microsoft Word for Mac?

Pages '09 will open .doc files from Word 2004. The Mac OS is not what is in question. Pages '09 opens Word 2004 documents and if the same version of Pages will run in Lion and in Mountain Lion ..... Thats all that matters.
I trust you were using MS Office 2004 and would now like to buy Pages?

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You have 2 versions of Pages on your Mac.
Pages 5 is in your Applications folder.
Pages '09/'08 is in your Applications/iWork folder.
You are alternately opening the wrong versions.
Pages '09/'08 can not open Pages 5 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5/5.01 can not open Pages 5.1 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5.1 sometimes can not open its own files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5 can open Pages '09 files but may damage/alter them. It can not open Pages '08 files at all.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5 the Pages '09 files can not be opened in Pages '09.
Anything that is saved to iCloud is also converted to Pages 5 files.
All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.
Apple has not only managed to confuse all its users, but also itself.
Note: Apple has removed over 100 features from Pages 5 and added many bugs:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Archive/trash Pages 5, after exporting all Pages 5 files to Pages '09 or Word .docx, and rate/review it in the App Store, then get back to work.
Peter

Can't open a pages document

It seems it should be very easy to transfer between the 2 mac programs. but I cannot open a Pages document with another computer running Appleworks 6. Is it not possible to open a iWork Paes documnet using appleworks. I have exported from Pages the different file types: WORD screws up the format and fonts; PLAIN TEXT does the same and I can't open RTF, HTML, or PDF files with Appleworks. Can anybody help???

It seems it should be very easy to transfer between
the 2 mac programs. but I cannot open a Pages
document with another computer running Appleworks 6.
Is it not possible to open a iWork Paes documnet
using appleworks. I have exported from Pages the
different file types: WORD screws up the format and
fonts; PLAIN TEXT does the same and I can't open
RTF, HTML, or PDF files with Appleworks. Can
anybody help???
As Sagesse notes, AppleWorks can't open Pages documents because it was released/updated years before Pages was made available. Apple does not claim that AppleWorks can open Pages documents.
Pages does not perfectly convert every document to a Word format. Nothing but Word does this.
But, plain text is plain text. It has no formatting, fonts, styles, etc. That's why it's called plain text and why your formatting, etc is 'screwed up'.
Regarding Peggy's advice that AppleWorks cannot open Pages documents converted to RTF. This is generally true, but not technically true. In any case, it's easy to work around.
AppleWorks, Pages and Word can all open RTF files. However, if you include an image in a RTF file, it becomes a RTFD file. So because most Pages documents contain images, these files will be exported to a RTFD file format. AppleWorks and Word cannot handle a RTFD file. To work around this either: don't add images to your Pages documents, or open the the RTFD file (it's really just a folder containing a RTF file and the images) so you can open the RTF file in AppleWorks or Word.
HTML is a poor format to rely on for word processing documents they look different from browser to browser.
AppleWorks can only import PDF files, page-by-page, as images.
Before you consider purchasing MS Office, first download NeoOffice/J. It's a free clone of MS Office that does an almost perfect job at Office file translation.
Cheers.

I can't open a pages document.

I can't open a pages document. It says I need a new version of pages. I searched for upgrades but can't find any. Am I being forced to re-buy the program in order to access my documents? I looked into upgrading operating system, but Mavericks says I can't - my machine is too old? Seriously? It is starting to look like upgrades are breaking what otherwise worked fine, then charging to upgrade to make it work?

Pages 5 requires Mavericks.
If you can't upgrade to Mavericks you will need to Export your Pages 5 file to Pages '09 or Word .doc/x format then open it with whatever Pages version you have (you didn't say).
You can open Pages 5 files inside Safari using iWork for iCloud beta and Send a Copy in Word format to yourself.
Peter

Opening a Pages document on a PC???

Hi...can Microsoft Word open a Pages document??
Wondering?
R

mac,
Yes, Word can open a Pages document. But first you have to use Pages to Export it to Word format. Not a big deal. Just know that the more complicated the Pages doc is (i.e. text boxes, graphics, weird stuff), the less faithfully it's likely to be rendered in Word. But simpler docs do well.
-Dennis

Im trying to open a pages document I created on my ipad

When trying to open a pages document I created on my ipad on my mac mini, I get a message that i need a newer version of pages. But when I look on the app store it says I already have the latest version of pages.. What's the deal?

You have 2 versions of Pages on your Mac.
Pages 5 is in your Applications folder.
Pages '09/'08 is in your Applications/iWork folder.
You are alternately opening the wrong versions.
Pages '09/'08 can not open Pages 5 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5.01 can not open Pages 5.1 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5 can open Pages '09 files but may damage/alter them. It can not open Pages '08 files at all.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5 the Pages '09 files can not be opened in Pages '09.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5.1 files can not be opened in Pages 5.
Anything that is saved to iCloud is also converted to Pages 5 files.
All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.
Apple has removed over 100 features from Pages 5 and added many bugs:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Archive/trash Pages 5, after exporting all Pages 5 files to Pages '09 or Word .docx, and rate/review it in the App Store, then get back to work.
Peter

I opened my Pages document, choose Share but Mail is inactive. How do I get Mail active?

I opened my Pages document, choose Share, but Mail is inactive. It used to be active, don't know what happened. How do I activate mail so I can send
my Pages document via email?

Prior to the current version, the share menu contained only the means of sharing (Mail, Export). Choosing one of these opened a sub menu containing the available formats for the item to be shared (eg. Pages, Word, PDF).
For reasons unknown, Aple has revised the Share menu to show the means of sharing as a header (greyed) and the formats to use (Pages, Word, PDF) as menu items.
Choose the format lsted under the header.
Regards,
Barry

Pages crashes when trying to open a pages document.

Hi there, I'm new to the forum.
I have been working on a business plan since June and amended it as recently as yesterday. I saved it regularly and I closed the application normally.
However, on trying to open the document today Pages I get the progress window that tells me the file is opening. It gets halfway and I get the window with "The application Pages quit unexpectedly".
I have tried the reset option and everything else I can think of. I can open other pages documents it seems only this one is corrupted.
Is there anything I can do to recover my work. Any help much appreciated.

You got a corrupted file.
This is why I wrote many times: don't rely on Save.
Use Save as so you will be able to check that the newly saved document is OK before removing the old one.
You may also activate the feature allowing Pages to keep the late version when it saves.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France.) dimanche 16 août 2009 12:30:30

I cannot open my Pages documents :(

Can anyone help me please?
I am a newbie and I cannot open my pages documents.
Every time I open it, it always shows this "problem report for pages" and It's been weeks.
It says "Pages quit unexpectedly" and request me to click reopen to peen the application again, which the report will be sent to Apple automatically.
Nothing happens up until now. Still the same. Tried to open new document and any other saved documents, it remained the same.
A bit desperate here.
Can someone help please?
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.5
Version: 5.2.2

Nope.
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