Pages Documents sent to a PC

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Pages Documents sent to a PC

I create documents for my boss, sometimes 50 at a time that started as Word documents on a PC. My PC died and I bought a Mac. I can create the documents fine, but when I email them to my boss, they show up in his email as Zip files and he has to open each zip file to be able to print it which takes a lot more time that the quick print way without having to open the document when it was PC to PC. How can I fix that? Any way I can send the files without them Zipping?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), iOS 7.1.1

Posted on May 14, 2014 2:11 PM

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Answer 1

May 14, 2014 2:46 PM in response to SarahM2106

Save your current document in Pages. Now, on the Toolbar, select the Sharing icon (box with an up-arrow). From the resulting menu, choose Send a Copy > E-mail. Select Word as the document type, click Next, and the Word .docx document is now attached to the body of a new e-mail composition window. No zip necessary.

In the Mail compose window, select the paperclip icon from the Toolbar and enable Send Windows-Friendly Attachments. Once selected, you can then press Cancel on this dialog and you are good to go.

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Answer 2

May 14, 2014 2:45 PM in response to SarahM2106

Are you sending .pages documents to your boss?

How is he opening them without Pages on his computer?

Have you tried exporting them to Word .doc/x files?

Peter

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May 14, 2014 3:53 PM in response to VikingOSX

Do I have to do that for each document though? Sorry! I am new to Mac. I usually just attached a group of documents in one email and when I looked at the sharing tab, it seemed I would have to email each document separately to do that.

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Answer 4

May 14, 2014 7:31 PM in response to SarahM2106

The Sharing solution is per document.

You can use the File > Export To... > Word... Next approach, and save each Word document in an intuitive location ( Documents ). Then launch the Mail composition window, select multiple Word documents in the Finder, and drag/drop them into your Mail composition window as attachments.

By default the preceding export process will create Word .docx documents. If you want Word .doc documents, then click on the Advanced Options text in the Export dialog, and click the Format selection.

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Answer 5

May 15, 2014 5:22 AM in response to SarahM2106

Sarah,

If your boss uses Microsoft Office, so should you.

You can purchase it for your Mac.

Jerry

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