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Try these quick tips to open your Mac.pages documents on your Windows machine. Change the extension to zip and try opening it with Microsoft Office or a PDF or JPEG viewer–this works well for older versions of.pages, not so well for newer versions; Export file from Pages on your Mac or iOS device as a word document. As an alternative: In Pages, you can open Preferences, and under the General tab, select Save New Documents as Packages. This saves the file as a package (folder) which includes a PDF file, and you can open the folder, navigate to the PDF and open it. You won't be able to edit. Mac screenshot hotkey.
Opening a Pages Format File from Mac in Microsoft Windows
Be sure to save the pages file somewhere easily accessible to Windows Explorer, then do the following:
- 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
How To Open .pages In Windows
* 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.