When I try to export a Pages file as a Word file on my MacBook, it ends up saving as a .png. Any thoughts?

Here is a previous post regarding Pages exporting to .docx and producing .png images. The cause of this export issue was neither explainable nor resolved within 2.5 hours on the phone with Apple Support. Ultimately, the originator of that post had to reinstall Sequoia and restore from a backup before the problem was solved.

I use Pages v14.2 on Sequoia v15.0.1 and could not reproduce this export behavior to an image when requesting Word.

In Pages: File -> Export To -> Word...

Not what you want to hear but it works for me on Sequoia. Try creating a new user account on the Mac, login to this test account test Pages exporting to Word. Send the Word DOCX file to someone with Microsoft Word to verify it is working. I have 365, it's working perfectly for me even with rather complex Word documents.

Exporting to docx from Pages gives png fi… - Apple Community

Before you try reinstalling Sequoia, try booting into Safe Mode then restart normally. Sometimes that will fix anomalies.

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

FWIW, exporting a Pages document from Sequoia as a Word file (.docx), works for me as well.

Same here. On three different Macs.