Cannot cut and paste text between Pages 14 and Pages 15

For some reason, I cannot cut and paste text between Pages 14.x and Pages 15.x. Cut and paste works fine 14 > 14 or 15 > 15 but cannot exchange text between these two versions?

Posted on Feb 5, 2026 9:47 AM

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Posted on Feb 5, 2026 11:12 AM

There does seem to be some issue with clipboard transfers in several Creator Studio apps (there's a similar issue in copying tables between Numbers 15.1 -> 14.5, for example).


For me, it seems inconsistent, and I haven't absolutely worked out what it is - cases that didn't work this morning are now working, and vice versa (or maybe I just need more caffeine)


What does seem to work is pasting into some intermediate app that isn't part of Creator Studio - for example, I tried copying a table from Numbers 15.1 into a blank Mail.app message, then I could copy that table and paste it into Numbers 14.x, even though I couldn't go directly Numbers 15.1 -> 14.5. That may or may not be an option for you, depending on the content you're trying to transfer.


The 'good' news is that the file formats are compatible (identical?) so it should be possible to just open the document in the other version of Pages and get your content there (once opened in Pages 14, you're free to copy to any other Pages 14 document).


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Feb 5, 2026 11:12 AM in response to Alien_DNA

There does seem to be some issue with clipboard transfers in several Creator Studio apps (there's a similar issue in copying tables between Numbers 15.1 -> 14.5, for example).


For me, it seems inconsistent, and I haven't absolutely worked out what it is - cases that didn't work this morning are now working, and vice versa (or maybe I just need more caffeine)


What does seem to work is pasting into some intermediate app that isn't part of Creator Studio - for example, I tried copying a table from Numbers 15.1 into a blank Mail.app message, then I could copy that table and paste it into Numbers 14.x, even though I couldn't go directly Numbers 15.1 -> 14.5. That may or may not be an option for you, depending on the content you're trying to transfer.


The 'good' news is that the file formats are compatible (identical?) so it should be possible to just open the document in the other version of Pages and get your content there (once opened in Pages 14, you're free to copy to any other Pages 14 document).


Feb 5, 2026 11:43 AM in response to Camelot

Interesting - the intermediary step does indeed work. I can copy Pages 15.1 > TextEdit > Pages 14.5 and the other way 'round, but not direct. So there is that workaround. Thanks!


It's mostly a personal preference thing for me. I've set Pages docs to default to 14.5 because I'm not a fan of the new 15.1 UI, but Box insists on opening Pages docs with 15.1. I'll futz around with that to see if I can change the default or, failing that, simply uninstall 15.1 since the UI is less functional.

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