Old version pages for Catalina 10.15.7

If you originally installed Pages, Numbers, and Keynote at any time since Oct 2013, then you can probably get v11.1 of these applications from the Mac App Store for Catalina. If your Mac had these applications pre-installed by Apple or a third-party reseller, then you cannot get these applications for Catalina.

Launch the Mac App Store and sign in with the identical Apple ID used to previously install these applications. Press cmd+0 (zero) to open the Purchased panel. If Pages, Numbers, and Keynote appear there, they may show some symbol allowing you to install them. Do so, taking care to not click Cancel on any dialog. The final dialog should ask if you want to install the last compatible version of application ___ for macOS Catalina. You know what to do.

The current versions of these applications (v14.1) in the Mac App Store now require macOS Ventura or later for installation.

When someone is requesting how to reinstall Pages for any version of macOS, it sort of implies that they have Pages documents already. If these are text-only Pages documents, one can open them in a compatible version of LibreOffice and then save them as Word documents. Usually, unless there is some Pages formatting issues to overcome such as tables and n-column text.

LibreOffice continues to offer a command-line tool hidden within the application bundle. One can use that to convert any acceptable document format (including benign Pages documents) to another document format. I have soft-linked that tool to my ~/bin directory that I include in my PATH, and further, have created a Zsh function.

ln -s /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice ~/bin/soffice
soffice --help

In my ~/.zshenv file, I created the following function:

function to_docx_365 () {
for file in "$@" ;
do
    if [ -s $file ]; then
        /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to docx:"Office Open XML Text" "${file}"
    else
        printf "\n%s\n\n" ">>> $file not found or zero length."
        continue
    fi
done
}

In the Terminal, I refresh my available functions:

source ~/.zshenv

and now I can convert a basic Pages document in the current directory location to DOCX in the following manner:

to_docx_365 4pager.pages

There is no assurance that any images or other document objects will appear in their former Pages locations.

Tested with a Pages v14.1 document and LibreOffice v24.8.0 on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1. The converted document opens properly formatted in Word v16.88.

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

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Thanks, I realized they may have Pages Docs & needed Pages, was unaware LibreOffice had some capability.. you're a wizard! :)