I can't download Pages or Numbers

Have you installed Pages and Numbers in this Mac, or any other Mac that you own, using you Apple ID?

If so, you will be fine.

Open the App Store, and click on your account (bottom left).

Locate Pages in your list of "purchases". Click the download icon.

You will be advised that the current version does not work, but also asked if you want the latest one for your OS.

Confirm. Likewise for Numbers (or other Apple applications in similar circumstances).

If you never installed Pages or Numbers, there is a solution too. Let us know.

Wiping the drive and no Time Machine backup may have been your undoing.

You can try the following, but no promises it will work now:

If you (not Apple, not a reseller) installed Pages or Numbers from the Mac App Store since Oct 2013 you may be able to get the last compatible versions (11.1) of these applications for Catalina. Launch the Mac App Store and sign in with the same Apple ID that you used to previously install these applications. Press cmd+0 (zero) to open the Purchased panel. If Pages and Numbers appear there, click to download them. Do not click Cancel on any dialog that may appear and the last one will ask if you want to install the last compatible version of these applications for Catalina. Agree.

If the third paragraph above does not get you these applications, then you are on to BDAqua's suggestions, or you could squeak by using Pages or Numbers for iCloud.

The current (as of this post) LibreOffice 24.2.3 is supported on Catalina. Its documentation is here — all of which were written in LibreOffice. Surprisingly, LibreOffice Writer will open (read-only) current and simple Pages documents.

jentzenng wrote:

Thanks VikingOSX for your response.

The first paragraph is true.

Doest it mean I will never get to use Numbers and Pages on this MacBook forever?

Not necessarily. Do you have a friend with a Mac that is running Ventura or Sonoma? You can use that temporarily to “purchase” these applications using your Apple id. Once you do that, you can get them in older mac as VikingOSX described.

If you never installed Pages, Numbers, or Keynote with your Apple ID since Oct 2013 on any Mac, then you cannot get the latest compatible version (13.1) of these applications on macOS Monterey. Apple provides no direct download site for full installers of these applications.

If the first paragraph is false, and you did use your Apple ID previously to install these applications on a Mac, then launch the Mac App Store and sign in with that specific Apple ID that you used previously. Then press cmd+0 (zero) to open the Purchases panel. If Pages, Numbers, and Keynote appear there with any indication of a download or install button, click that. You may be presented with one or more dialogs. Do not click Cancel on any of them and the last dialog may ask if you want to install the last compatible version of the application on macOS Monterey. Do so.

Yes, a new Mac will allow you to have both, in new versions.

Does LibreOffice not do something you need???

Free LibreOffice, it handles MS Office files like Word & Excel, & Page Layout…

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Thanks to Matti Haveri…

MS Office for Mac Mini - Apple Community

LibreOffice 4.0.6.2_MacOS_PPC works in OS X 10.5.8 (last official PowerPC version).

LibreOffice 4.3.7.2_MacOS_x86.dmg (and x86-64?) works in OS X 10.6.

LibreOffice 7.0.4 works in macOS 10.11 and 10.14.

https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/

Thanks to Servant to Cats…

LibreOffice is up to

• Version 7.5.4 – Requires Mojave or later
• Version 7.4.7 – Requires High Sierra or later
• The LibreOffice site is now offering
• Version 7.6.2 – Requires Catalina or later
• Version 7.5.7 – Requires Mojave or later

Yikes... no Time Machine Backup?

Look into the Free LibreOffice, it handles MS Office files like Word & Excel, & Page Layout…

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Thanks to Matti Haveri…

MS Office for Mac Mini - Apple Community

LibreOffice 4.0.6.2_MacOS_PPC works in OS X 10.5.8 (last official PowerPC version).

LibreOffice 4.3.7.2_MacOS_x86.dmg (and x86-64?) works in OS X 10.6.

LibreOffice 7.0.4 works in macOS 10.11 and 10.14.

https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/

Thanks to Servant to Cats…

LibreOffice is up to

• Version 7.5.4 – Requires Mojave or later
• Version 7.4.7 – Requires High Sierra or later
• The LibreOffice site is now offering
• Version 7.6.2 – Requires Catalina or later
• Version 7.5.7 – Requires Mojave or later

Release notes indicate that as of August 2023, new versions of LibreOffice will likely require Catalina or later.

The current versions of LibreOffice as of June 16, 2024 are

• 24.2.4 (early adopter version)
• 7.6.7 (stable version)

The numbers jumped so much because the LibreOffice developers are now using calendar-based versioning. The leading "24.2" in "24.2.4" means they came out with that version in February 2024 (2/24).

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libre-office-versions/104760

VikingOSX wrote:

LibreOffice 24.2.4 is a stable release provided as Intel and Apple Silicon builds. It is not an early adopter build.

You were saying?

LibreOffice 24.2.4 is a stable release provided as Intel and Apple Silicon builds. It is not an early adopter build.

I face the same issue with a MacBook Air handed down by my wife.

I am using Numbers and Pages on my iPad Pro and also iPhone.

Reformatted the MacBook Air and signed in with my Apple ID as usual and try to download Numbers and Pages but was prompted with "Numbers can’t be installed on “Macintosh HD” because macOS version 13 or later is required."

The MacBook Air is currently running on macOS Monterey 12.7.5 and after checking with the software update, its say that my Mac is up to date.

Any solution for this?

It is not beta code, and that is an OR clause that includes those who consider themselves early adopters, but not limited to that category. That major version 24 stands for 2024 and that code pool is now six months old. I have been installing the most recent non-beta releases (including 24.2.4) for years without a single problem.

Thanks VikingOSX for your response.

The first paragraph is true.

Doest it mean I will never get to use Numbers and Pages on this MacBook forever?

Thanks Luis for your response.

This method seems impossible for me.

Any other method available?

By the way, just wonder if getting a new macbook comes with Numbers and Pages?

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