I just dowloaded the 15.1.1 version of pages and can't get documents I wrote on the old versions to copy and paste to documents on the new version. I've never had this happen before on any previous version. I am a writer and I need to be able to copy and paste my information from old documents. Thank you for your help in advance.
This is now a fact that Pages v14.5 cannot copy/paste into Pages v15.1.1, or the reverse. Your only workaround now is to use v15.1.1 and later as the sole Pages application on macOS Sequoia v15.6 or later, as the version 14 distribution has reached end of life.
Your older Pages documents that you could open in earlier versions of Pages should open just fine in Pages v15 or later where interdocument copy/paste will work as expected. I just opened a Pages document created by Pages v5.6.2 in El Capitan without issue in Pages v15.1.1.
Pages v15 and later are standalone from the Apple Creator Studio unless you deliberately subscribe them via the Pages application menu in-app purchase.
As a writer, do you want to know what version of Pages created the document, and all of the versions that edited same? Something like this?
This is now a fact that Pages v14.5 cannot copy/paste into Pages v15.1.1, or the reverse. Your only workaround now is to use v15.1.1 and later as the sole Pages application on macOS Sequoia v15.6 or later, as the version 14 distribution has reached end of life.
Your older Pages documents that you could open in earlier versions of Pages should open just fine in Pages v15 or later where interdocument copy/paste will work as expected. I just opened a Pages document created by Pages v5.6.2 in El Capitan without issue in Pages v15.1.1.
Pages v15 and later are standalone from the Apple Creator Studio unless you deliberately subscribe them via the Pages application menu in-app purchase.
As a writer, do you want to know what version of Pages created the document, and all of the versions that edited same? Something like this?
Why not... just... OPEN the documents in 15.1?
There's no need to copy and paste between versions. The file formats are compatible, so just open the document and go from there.
I found a work around. If I save a 14.1 pages file as a docx I can copy and paste from there.
Most of the documents I'm attempting to access right now are 14.1. If there is no work around, Apple has made pages obsolete for me and I may as well use a PC. I switched to apple 10 yrs ago because it was writer friendly. Obviously this is not.
You seem to be fixated on the old versions of Pages… 😉 You can open the old documents in Pages v15.* and copy/paste into any other Pages document (including a new document) that is opened in Pages v15.* without issue. Pages documents are not tied to Pages v14.1.
Based on the previous paragraph, there is no productive basis in the extra step of exporting a Pages v14.1 document to a Word docx.
I don't care for the new version. When I opened my current document in it the first time, I lost 1200 words. I've never had that happen before with my MAC--ever. Nor do I like not being able to turn AI off completely which I have yet to figure out. So, yes, I am resisting a program that failed the first time I opened it.
Pages 15.1.1 won't copy and paste from old versions of pages
