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GREYED OUT FILES

I HAVE MANY FILES THAT APPEAR IN GREY AND CANNOT BE ACCESSED. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 7:22 AM

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VikingOSX

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Posted on Oct 13, 2020 7:47 AM

If you are referring to files appearing in the Pages Open File Chooser, then the following categories of files cannot be opened, and will appear in gray:

PDF
All images
Keynote or Numbers documents
OpenOffice, NeoOffice, or LibreOffice OpenDocument formats (.odt, .ods, .odp)
MS Publisher files (.pub)
AppleWorks documents
WordPerfect documents
All others that are not:
- .txt
- .rtf/rtfd
- .pages
- .doc/x

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