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A previous question explained that some formats eg pdf can’t be opened in Pages after trying to save there and just show as grey titles. How do I get rid of these greyed out document titles which are now just clutter?
iPad Pro, iOS 13
Hello,
When you first open Pages it will display a list of documents which are saved in your Pages folder within the Files application. The Pages folder is either stored on iCloud Drive or On My iPad.
.ODT and .PDF files are not supported by Pages and cannot be imported. Pages supports importing .TXT, .RTF, .DOC, .DOCX, .Pages, etc. You would need to find other applications that could read .ODT and .PDF.
Hello,
When you first open Pages it will display a list of documents which are saved in your Pages folder within the Files application. The Pages folder is either stored on iCloud Drive or On My iPad.
.ODT and .PDF files are not supported by Pages and cannot be imported. Pages supports importing .TXT, .RTF, .DOC, .DOCX, .Pages, etc. You would need to find other applications that could read .ODT and .PDF.
Ok. Thanks again. Much as I feared. I can maybe resave .odt for example into .doc etc before taking into pages.
One last query, which is where I came in, how do I get rid of the useless grey headings for the documents I cant open, which are cluttering up the documents list?
Hello,
Navigate to the folder where these documents are stored in iPad’s Files application. Long-press on one of the documents > Info. The title of the document will be word(s) followed by a . and 3 letter extension. ie. FileName.TXT.
What is the file extension of these documents?
Thanks for the reply. A latecomer to Apple and iPad so allow me some patience if you will.
Where do I locate the folder in the Files application you mention so I can try that remedy? Holding and dragging the grey files just opens a comment “Couldn’t import document. File format is invalid”. Dragging off screen doesn’t get rid of it.
File extensions in grey were ’saved’ to Pages (but didn’t) from a .odt file from Apache Open Office from an Acer laptop; a .pdf file from a Yahoo email attachment and an IMG photo from my iPhone. All turned out grey.
Greyed out documents in Pages in iPad pro
