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I have moved to OS X, and although Microsoft's Office software is brilliant on Windows, on the Mac its usability leaves something to be desired compared to Apple's own counterparts (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) which, although not containing as many bells and whistles, still provide any features I need to use.

So I now open all my existing .docx files in Pages (which can open it natively), where, once saved in the application, saves it to a .pages file by default.

What is the easiest way then, to open .pages files on my Windows computers (ideally, a similar automatic process in the reverse)?

Is there a downloadable Microsoft Word add-on (like the one that opens and converts newer versions of office files than the version you have installed), or a third party Office add-on (whether free or paid), or some other nifty tool to one-click / auto-convert .pages files to .docx files in Windows?

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Open Pages files in Windows?

Use Google Docs and Cloud Converter. FANTASTIC - Just working.

  1. Open or register your Gmail account.
  2. After you have signed in, go onto Google Docs (link underneath).
  3. Upload your file to Google Docs. (it`s your private storage)
  4. Click Open with and select Cloud Converter.

Links:

karel
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Laslo Frischmann
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Another option is to register for free to Apple's iCloud service (https://www.icloud.com/), upload your document there, and download it in either .docx or .pdf format. This of course less than ideal, but at least you can view the document. A more detailed step-by-step description of the process with screenshots can be found here. Unlike the previous solution based on Google Docs, in this case you need not convert the document... you can edit it online, and save it back as .pages, if you plan to work mostly in that format.

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giocomai
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What I just did:

  1. Save the file locally on your windows computer.
  2. Right click on the file and select rename.
  3. Remove .pages extension and enter .zip as the extension and press enter.
  4. Open the zip file and find preview.jpg

Go to http://www.onlineocr.net/ and convert image to text. This may only work for simple text docs. I my case all I wanted was the text anyway.

JaseC
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In Pages under File just select Export and then choose .docx. Pages will save the file in a format that can be opened in Office on a Windows computer.

Jon Doh
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I was very uncomfortable granting cloud conversion tools blanket access to my Google Drive.. I found it was easiest to use a third party conversion service and upload just that one .pages file to convert. I used https://www.aconvert.com/document/pages-to-pdf/ and it worked. There's also a convert to .doc option from the same source.

Jeff Atwood
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LibreOffice Writer can open Pages documents and save them to other formats. It is free and open source and doesn't require a signup.

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In Windows, just add ".zip" as a filename extension and you'll be able to open in in Microsoft Office. See here for more details:

http://osxdaily.com/2014/07/16/open-pages-format-file-in-windows/

Steven Carter
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