Why can I no longer Save As a Word document?

More information, please!

Are you still on 10.6.6 or have you updated to Lion?

Has anything else new happened on your computer?

What else can you tell us? We can't see you computer so good information will help a lot.

Try and isolate the problem.

Do any of your Exports work such as rtf, txt, pdf?

Just changing a .pages extension was never going to work, the formats are completely different.

Is it possible you have something incompatible added into your Pages document. Or have added passwording?

Do all your documents have the same problem?

Try a fresh unedited template.

Try starting up from a new User.

Vary the circumstances and see if there is one which does let you export which will help narrow down the issue.

Peter

Someone else had this problem and it was because they were saving a copy to a networked drive. Where are you saving your documents?

Can't export Word docs to network drive

Also, have you moved Pages/iWork from the /Applications folder or renamed Pages?

Lastly, I'm wondering if this is a permissions problem:

1. Can you save a document in a Word format to other folders?
2. Have you run Disk Utility and had it Repair Disk Permissions?
3. What permissions are set for the folder you're saving the document to? That is, from the Finder click once on the folder, choose the File > Get Info menu command and check you have Read Write access.

Try using Pages in a new account. You can create one in System Preferences > Accounts.

If it works in the new account something is wrong in your old acount. Often it helps to ditch the com.apple.iwork.pages.plist in Users > your name > Library > Preferences folder

Deleteing the plist should be done when Pages is quitted.

If it doesn't work in the new account uninstall Pages/ iWork 09. you can download Yvan's script here

<http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>

Download :

For_iWork:iWork '09:uninstall iWork '09.zip

Expand the archive and run the script.

Here are my two cents.

The resources defining the file formats which Pages may import or export are stored in the file :

Macintosh HD:Applications:iWork '09:Pages.app:Contents:Info.plist

Assuming that you didn't installed the Developer tools, go to my iDisk (address below)

Download :

Pref Setter.app.zip

Unpack the archive.

Open the file "Info.plist" with Pref Setter.

Open the entry entitled : CFBundleDocumentsTypes

Open the items 9, 10, 11, 12

The normal contents is :

Double check the parameters available for items 9 & 10.

What you get may be linked to some oddity in these resources.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 1 octobre 2011 18:00:23

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0

My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>

Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

Have you tried simply going to "share' on the menu bar, then select "send via mail" which gives you 3 options, pages, word and pdf. Select "word" and it will send your doc as word to the recipient. That has always worked for me. I dont even have word on my laptop, and never have a problem with word files opening or sending.

Guy Vitetta

I am having the exact same problem today, never had it before. Have tried saving different documents to different locations, always get the error messages. I tried the "save as copy" as well as exporting, and the "share" option, none will work.

Have not yet tried deleting and reinstalling the application, but will try that after getting back to a faster internet connection.

Hello ARRichard

May you tell the version number of the application which you are running

and the version number of the Operating System in use ?

PS :

I have an idea : check if the filename contains slashes (/) or colon (:).

If you are running Lion, it may explain what you got.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 1 octobre 2011 23:21:06

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0

My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>

Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

My pages is version 4.1, running OS X 10.6.8. I tried a couple different filenames to see if that was affecting it, but none had slashes or colons in them.

You have not said you have tried this from a new user.

Peter

Reboot your machine and try again. I know it sounds dumb as h3ll, but it's the quickest way to solve this issue.

I began to have the same problem today when I tried to convert a word document to a pages document. I got a "permission denied" window.I tried your 2nd suggestion and ran the Disk Utility and had it Repair Disk Permissions. Then I restarted my imac and pages is now allowing me to save word documents as pages documents again. Thanks for the help!