I am trying to open a Pages file that was created in 2004. Obviously, Pages 13.2 will not open the file. Does anyone know of an online file converter, or any other way that I might be able to open these files?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
Pages was introduced Jan 1, 2005, and Pages v13.2 is supposed to open those older iWork '05 documents, and later iWork versions. If the document really was created in 2004, then it is not a Pages document, and might be an AppleWorks document that was incorrectly renamed with a .pages extension. No version of Pages since '09 v4.3 can open an AppleWorks document.
You might try installing the free LibreOffice v7.6.4 as it can open older Pages (and AppleWorks) documents. If it does, you can then save that content as Word .docx and then open that format in Pages v13.2. I would try this over any online converter which might make every sentence a text box and cost you hours of editing time.
Pages was introduced Jan 1, 2005, and Pages v13.2 is supposed to open those older iWork '05 documents, and later iWork versions. If the document really was created in 2004, then it is not a Pages document, and might be an AppleWorks document that was incorrectly renamed with a .pages extension. No version of Pages since '09 v4.3 can open an AppleWorks document.
You might try installing the free LibreOffice v7.6.4 as it can open older Pages (and AppleWorks) documents. If it does, you can then save that content as Word .docx and then open that format in Pages v13.2. I would try this over any online converter which might make every sentence a text box and cost you hours of editing time.
Good and you are welcome.
I always keep a current version of LIbreOffice installed for those unplanned needs to recover older documents.
You may be able to find the last three or four letters of the file usually followed after the name and the a . For example random.png and then google a file converter for that to the type of file that pages supports
That worked perfectly! Thank you so much for the help, VikingOSX!
Cannot Open a very old Pages File
