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Q: recently upgraded pages & numbers . now have two icons for each and when i try to open some docs in from old icon it gives message that it is unsupported. What do i do?

I recently upgraded to pages 5.0 and Numbers 3.0 and now i have 2 icons for each one for old app and one for new. when i try to open some documents from old pages or spread sheets from old numbers i get message that that format is not supported. What do i d?

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 23, 2013 6:52 AM

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  • by baltwo,

    baltwo baltwo Dec 23, 2013 12:48 PM in response to orangedoc
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    Dec 23, 2013 12:48 PM in response to orangedoc

    The old items should work with the old apps, unless you inadvertently opened them with the new apps.

     

    See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049 and http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/11/review-the-productivity-suite-formerly-know n-as-iwork/ for more details.

  • by rkaufmann87,

    rkaufmann87 rkaufmann87 Dec 23, 2013 12:54 PM in response to orangedoc
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    Dec 23, 2013 12:54 PM in response to orangedoc

    orangedoc,

     

    When you have two versions of the same app on  your Dock it can be confusing. I would recommend removing the older version's icon from the Dock and only use latest versions of the Apps (Pages 5 and Numbers 3) to open your files. If you don't know how to remove an app from the Dock simply click and drag it to the desktop and and it will be removed in a puff of smoke. Don't worry though the old versions of the apps will still reside in the Applications folder

  • by baltwo,

    baltwo baltwo Dec 23, 2013 1:49 PM in response to rkaufmann87
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    Dec 23, 2013 1:49 PM in response to rkaufmann87

    rkaufmann87 wrote:

    I would recommend removing the older version's icon from the Dock and only use latest versions of the Apps (Pages 5 and Numbers 3) to open your files.

    I wouldn't, since the new ones removed significant furnctionality. Which one the OP should use is up to them.

  • by rkaufmann87,

    rkaufmann87 rkaufmann87 Dec 23, 2013 2:02 PM in response to baltwo
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    Dec 23, 2013 2:02 PM in response to baltwo

    baltwo wrote:

     

    rkaufmann87 wrote:

    I would recommend removing the older version's icon from the Dock and only use latest versions of the Apps (Pages 5 and Numbers 3) to open your files.

    I wouldn't, since the new ones removed significant furnctionality. Which one the OP should use is up to them.

    Valid point if the OP uses the functionality you are referring to. However keeping both versions of the app on the Dock could make it confusing so it would be  up to the OP to recall what version of the app they used to edit a document.

     

    Personally I'm not a power user of either app so I wasn't personally affected by the new versions.

  • by baltwo,

    baltwo baltwo Dec 23, 2013 2:25 PM in response to rkaufmann87
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    Dec 23, 2013 2:25 PM in response to rkaufmann87

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