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😟downloaded Maverick and now pages is messed up. keeps telling me I have to purchase new version or can't open files. What's up with that? 😟

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), have maverick & now pages messed up

Posted on Dec 29, 2013 12:20 PM

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Dec 29, 2013 3:03 PM in response to 100chickie

Hi,


The basic premise is that on one machine you have a Pages app that produces newer versions of documents. On the Mac you are using an older version of Pages. To fix this problem you have two options:


  1. Upgrade to a newer version of Pages on the Mac running Mavericks
  2. Save or Export your documents (on the other device) to an older version of Pages, to a Word file, or to a Text file


This should allow you to open documents on both systems. With option #2 you will lose some style information from the document if you save it as Word/Text/older Pages. Option #1 costs $19.99 (USD) in the Mac App Store.


Supported Pages Document Format:

User uploaded file

Dec 29, 2013 8:11 PM in response to 100chickie

You have two versions of Pages on your Mac and are alternating between them when you create files.


Pages 5 is in your Applications folder and converts Pages '09 files, often badly.


Pages '09 is in your Applications/iWork folder and will not open Pages 5 files at all.


Check out the forum for the differences. Apple has removed over 90+ features from Pages 5 and many other features don't work or work badly:


http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&mforum=iworktipsn trick


Peter

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