Is there a way to export in rich text format in new pages?
I download the new Pages and cannot find a way to export as rich text. What am I missing?
Hugh
Have you tried to Save as…?
Peter
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That gives me a "pages doc" only. I can go to share and export as a plain text document, but the old pages export as rich text seems to be gone, or is the text export from share the same as rich text?
I suppose I can just save as a word doc.
Hugh
Is it me, or is Apple taking a huge step backwards?
I relied on rtf to send files to lots of people and I didn't have to worry if they had a Windows or Apple machine, pages or Word or only a text program. Mostly I used it for work so that basic formatting would survive, but now Pages doesn't support rtf!
If I have to format as Word to send out any special formats then why wouldn't I just USE Word in the first place?
The 'Save as' function now requires me to jump through hoops instead of a simple process to rename.
It is perhaps too early to make this judgment, but it seems to me that Apple is starting to fall into the arrogance that used to dog Microsoft. They are so big that they now think they can move away from ease of use and it is a BIG mistake!
It's just one of the many, many features that have been eliminated or changed. Leave feedback for the Pages team using the link in the Pages menu.
I have no immediate intention of installing either Mavericks or Pages 5, so I can't check, but rich text has (as far as I know) always been one of the formats that Pages puts on the clipboard when you copy a text selection.
So you can, in Pages, Select All and Copy (⌘A,⌘C), Command tab to TextEdit, Paste into a new document and Save as RTF (⌘N, ⌘V,⌘S). That's a few more steps than going through the old Export… process, but I would suspect that it still works.
As Jeff astutely pointed out, Pages v5 introduces (and I hope this is short-term inconvenience) a period where one may be required to pre-process or post-process input/output with other available OS X tools to achieve final goals.
There are a lot of threads concerning this stuff, we're not alone. Here's what I discovered:
No, Pages 5 cannot export to (.rtf)... I know because I looked for it for some time.
The discovery that saved me from pulling out my imaginary hair was that 'Pages' (version 5.0) has been ADDED to your applications; to wit, it didn't change your iWorks '09 Pages (version 4.3) application. If you look in your applications folder, the new Pages (5.0) is listed there, and your Pages '09 is still in your iWorks folder. I went back to using 4.3 for that very reason (.rtf export).
If you have opened and saved files in the new Pages (5.0), and are scared you won't be able to access them returning to '09, don't sweat it... 5.0 has an export to '09.
I hope that helps...
Thank you, thank you, thank you Inqursion. Did I say it enough? Thank YOU!!
I was looking for "Export to RTF" because Pages 5.0 does not work with Endnote x7; in opening a document in Pages 5.0 (my latest and overdue 5000 word assignment) I lost all of my in-text references. After endless pulling out of hair (I am now metaphorically bald) I was hoping to cobble together a sort-of reference set using an RTF list, as the only format Endnote will work with outside of Word or Pages, but then couldn't export as RTF. Then I came across your post, found the original iWork 09 folder, exported my Pages 5.0 copy of the assignment back out as 09 format, and suddenly all my references re-appeared.
I humbly thank you from the bottom of my very stressed heart.
This is a terrible reduction in functionality in Pages 5.0. This feature needs to be brought back. As much as it sometimes feels like "sending feedback to Apple" is futile, the current state of their iWork apps has inspired me to do so anyway.
Is there any workaround without using an entirely new word processor or reverting to Pages '09? I removed all things iWork '09 from my system and can't seem to find the installation disk…
Why did you do that?
I seriously suggest everyone have a good look at the newly released LibreOffice 4.2.
I am becoming more and more convinced that it will be a better choice than switching to Microsoft Office, the other near similar choice to iWork.
Peter
Is there a way to export in rich text format in new pages?