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If you use Microsoft Word on your Mac, you can save the documents you create and open them in Pages, Apple’s word processor. It’s a handy feature to use in case you can’t access Microsoft’s apps. Pages is a word processor developed by Apple Inc. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the macOS, iPadOS, and iOS operating systems. It is also available on iCloud on the web The first version of Pages was announced on January 11, 2005, and was released one month later.
Opening a Pages Format File from Mac in Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Office for Mac Yes, I use Pages and Word for Mac too. The current version of Office I have installed is Office for Mac 2011, which works with versions up to Mac OS Sierra. But this version is not supported on Macs using macOS High Sierra, Mojave, or new versions.
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Be sure to save the pages file somewhere easily accessible to Windows Explorer, then do the following:
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- Make a copy of the .pages file as a backup in the event the file gets corrupted along the way
- Right-click on the .pages file and choose “Rename”
- Delete the “.pages” extension and replace it with “.zip” extension*, then hit the Enter key to save the extension change
- Open the newly renamed .zip file to be able to open and access the Pages format content within Microsoft Word, Office, or WordPad
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* Note that you may need to have file extensions visible in Windows to be able to properly change the extension of the pages document. They may need to be made visible first through the Folder Options > View > Uncheck ‘Hide extensions for known file types’ – You can safely ignore any file extension warning change warning.