Cannot open Pages docs from Dock right-click menu

When I right click on the Pages Icon on my Mac Desktop (dock), I see the documents I am looking for in an attached window above the icon. I cannot open them.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 13, 2026 12:55 AM

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Posted on Jan 13, 2026 3:27 AM

That is a list of recently opened documents. If they have been deleted or moved from their original location, or stored on an unmounted drive or network share, they will silently fail to open. Those that were last used and remain in their original location — still open normally using a right-click of the Pages Dock icon.


I don't have macOS Catalina and Pages v11.1 to test, but that is how it works on my current Sequoia v15.7.3 with Pages v14.4.

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Jan 13, 2026 3:27 AM in response to ronelengelbrecht

That is a list of recently opened documents. If they have been deleted or moved from their original location, or stored on an unmounted drive or network share, they will silently fail to open. Those that were last used and remain in their original location — still open normally using a right-click of the Pages Dock icon.


I don't have macOS Catalina and Pages v11.1 to test, but that is how it works on my current Sequoia v15.7.3 with Pages v14.4.

Cannot open Pages docs from Dock right-click menu

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