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Hi everyone,
After exporting/transferring documents from my MBP to my iPad2 (specifically .xlsx to Numbers, .Doc, .Docx, .pdf to Pages) some won't allow me to open them on the iPad and I can't figure out why.
Once I make them available to open on the iPad and I go to import from "Copy from iTunes", the odd one (less than 1 in 10) is greyed out and won't let me open it. I've tried renaming the file, removing the file type from the name, etc. etc.
Note: all .xlsx have worked; about 9/10 .doc or .docx have worked, and about 4/5 .pdf have worked, so I know I'm doing things right on the iTunes side.
Any idea what's up?

Too bad I can't answer my own questions for points!!
Solution I've found:
- emailed myself the PDF in question and opened in iBooks.
I'm wondering if you aren't supposed to be able to read PDFs in Pages, since it's a fixed document (not editable).
There you go, folks, problem solved!

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